The collection that announced Graham as the heir to Stevens and Bishop. Her early poems meditate on Italian paintings, the soul's materiality, and the failure of representation with a gravity that invites rereading. Her later work (The Dream of the Unified Field, Swarm) became more formally radical; Erosion is where she was most concentrated. Pulitzer Prize for The Dream of the Unified Field (1996).

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