within the Borrowed global, Emily Leithauser transforms keenly felt event and bittersweet thoughts into poems of awesome craftsmanship. She deftly muses at the dichotomies of, between different issues, early life and growing to be up, the headiness of affection won and the pangs of affection misplaced, the fun of the and the rigors whilst it will get damaged up. even though a primary e-book, The Borrowed global is the pro paintings of poet of plentiful expertise getting into her powers and deservedly, the winner of the 2015 capable Muse ebook Award.

PRAISE FOR THE BORROWED WORLD:

In The Borrowed global, Emily Leithauser’s formal mastery—her consummate knack for writing strains and sentences as crisp and stylish because the Edo prints to which she can pay homage—entwines with the sheer immediacy and vulnerability of the poet’s voice. Leithauser portrays the inevitability of loss, in romantic and familial relationships, and but, with no ever providing fake resolutions or pat conclusions, she manages to make her poems themselves convincing remains opposed to loss. I suggest that this publication is made to suffer. The Borrowed global marks the coming of an incredible talent.
—Peter Campion, 2015 capable Muse publication Award pass judgement on, writer of El Dorado

Emily Leithauser’s first assortment, The Borrowed international, is a chic meditation on inheritance, the vagaries of affection and loss, familial relations—with all of the devastating implosions within—and our courting to the prior filtered in the course of the unsuitable lens of reminiscence. those are deeply felt poems and Leithauser has a finely-tuned ear for the lyricism of syntax and the iconic rhythms of conventional kinds. The Borrowed global is her gorgeous debut.
—Natasha Trethewey, 2012–2014 US Poet Laureate, writer of Thrall

If her intensely exact perceptions of the actual global and the gorgeous kinds within which she units these perceptions have been all that Emily Leithauser gave us in those poems, they might be good enough to fulfill the hungriest poetry reader. yet step by means of perspicuous step, in poem after poem, she enlarges and encompasses, she broadens and deepens and transmutes notion into feeling, feeling into suggestion, and notion into revelation.
—Vijay Seshadri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, writer of three Sections

Love poems, family members poems, narrative poems: The Borrowed international is a relocating and remarkable debut which covers loads of flooring yet is often rooted in actualities. The poems are very well-made, too, yet their both nice contrast is to be well-felt—subtle of their account of the looking at “I,” and at the same time beneficiant and smart of their figuring out of others. web page by way of web page, they bring about a chain of robust cameos; taken as an entire, their greater goal emerges: to sign up what might be identified and (especially) now not recognized approximately our lives as participants, and to worth what time permits us to take pleasure in on the earth, whereas admitting the brevity of our remain here.
—Andrew movement, 1999–2009 united kingdom Poet Laureate, writer of The Customs House

I have learn The Borrowed global numerous occasions, and every time i locate extra in it to be overjoyed and touched via. Emily Leithauser’s paintings waits for you, and i'm yes that you'll be as happy and moved by way of it as i've got been.
—Michael Palma (from the foreword), writer of commence in Gladness

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Emily Leithauser was once born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Western Massachusetts. She earned her MFA in poetry at Boston college and her PhD in English at Emory collage, the place she is a Lecturer within the artistic Writing application. Her paintings has seemed in New Ohio evaluate, Blackbird, Literary mind's eye, and Southwest evaluate, between different journals. She is the recipient of the 2015 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans prize for poetry. She lives in Atlanta along with her fiancé, Simon, and their canines.
 The Borrowed global is the winner of the 2015 capable Muse ebook Award.