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Poetry in America, Julia Spicher Kasdorf's long-awaited third book of poetry, is now available through University of Pittsburgh Press.

Amazon.com describes Poetry in America as, "extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources. Where, in such times, can poetry emerge, the book asks—and answers—again and again. Largely set in rural places and small towns, these poems are politically committed but deeply sensuous, emotionally complex and compassionate. They take up the everyday in meaningful ways, and deliver it with blunt force, yet not without hope or bright humor."

Spicher Kasdorf will be the S.A. Yoder Memorial lecturer at Goshen College this fall.