The Apothecary's Heir (National Poetry Series)

By Julianne Buchsbaum

Selected for the National Poetry Series by Lucie Brock-Broido Poet Julianne Buchsbaum has won acclaim for her "rich, lucid, alliterative lexicon, full of apt surprise" (Reginald Shepherd); "there is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction," says Matthew Rohrer. Her new collection, The Apothecary's Heir , depicts a damaged world in which the speaker is trying to make sense of human relationships in the aftermath of loss. A series of meditations on landscapes of our postmodern world--a sickbed, a gas station, a bomb shelter, a rest stop along a highway--these supple poems explore the frailty of human connectedness and anatomize desire in a world of pharmaceuticals and microchips.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143121413
• ISBN13: 9780143121411
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.3" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher