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Grace Schulman is an acclaimed poet, most recently recipient of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, the highest award of the Poetry Society of America. Among her other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, New York University's Distinguished Alumni Award, a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and four Pushcart Prizes. Schulman is the author of seven collections of poems, including Without a Claim, her most recent, and Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems, a Library Journal Best Books of the Year. Her prose essays are collected in First Loves and Other Adventures, and she is editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, and former poetry editor of the Nation. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY.
We tread with her the stony path, then step into sunlit clearings. An unfazed woman of letters, vastly distinguished, her past now beaten to beauty, leads us to the heart of the mystery: two souls looking out together on the world. From its wonderful title forward, Strange Paradise swept me into a strong embrace. I know of no other book like it. --Benjamin Taylor, author of Proust: The Search and The Hue and Cry at Our House A beautiful journey to grief, injured yet searching, a stirring and engaging literary memoir, and a 'history' of an ever-changing New York City. --Carol Muske-Dukes One of the permanent poets of her generation. --Harold Bloom Schulman is a torch. --Richard Howard
