D Nurkse

"The selected poems of an essential American poet, who has cast a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories over eleven books and thirty-five years. D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms...