Available today, THAT SAID: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS from Jane Shore, one of America’s most distinguished poets. 

THAT SAID deftly traces Jane Shore’s career from her first two awarding-winning volumes, Eye-level and The Minute Hand, with their fascination for objects, to Music Minus One, Happy Family, and A Yes-or-No-Answer, which, taken together, fashion a memoir in verse about her childhood in Bergen, New Jersey, where she lived above her parents’ dress shop. 

A group of new poems makes it clear that Shore is American poetry’s most original inheritor of Marianne Moore’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s amazing knack for discovering the uncanny in everyday experience. The search for the source of authentic speech, especially as it’s found in the words of family and friends, has been at the heart of Jane Shore’s work from the beginning, and it has helped her to become, as Julia Alvarez writes, “without question, one of our best and most perceptive chroniclers of family life.”