Inventing Difficulty

Poetry. A first book of poetry from Brooklyn's Jessica Greenbaum, winner of a Discovery/The Nation prize and P.E.N.'s New Writer award. A sinewy, vividly intelligent humanity gives to this collection its memorable voice. In one sense, Jessica Greenbaum's poems are incisively local - that Brooklyn landscape out of Whitman and Hart Crane. In another sense, however, they tell of the larger sadness and recognitions of our century. They 'design their world through love' and scrupulous observation - George Steiner.Greenbaum, Jessica is the author of 'Inventing Difficulty' with ISBN 9781878851147 and ISBN 1878851144.