Foxglovewise
By (Author) Ange Mlinko
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st April 2025
30th January 2025
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
811.6
Paperback
96
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
The UK debut of a celebrated American poet whose work is as lyrical as it is radical.
Ange Mlinko's poetry pursues both the lyrical and the radical to an extent that leaves us simultaneously moved and impressed. Foxglovewise is complex but inviting, profound but wry. It is firmly contemporary while also being in lively conversation with deep histories: 'Where do stargazers go in a city of light' Mlinko takes us from a Scottish cemetery to a mangrove in Florida via a supercell storm in Texas. Along the way, her use of form and rhyme is as light as it is enlightening as she probes our all-too-human nature and pays careful attention to the quiet marvels to be found by looking carefully at right where we happen to be.
Ange Mlinko has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism. She writes for the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. She lives and teaches in Florida.