And Now, Nowhere But Here - by Andrea Hollander (Paperback)

About the Book

"Hollander has a way of writing that travels a parallel track with ordinary conversational language."

-Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate, 2004-2006

Book Synopsis

"All these poems are graceful and enchanting in their directness. Hollander's poems always step off the main road and walk along on the shoulder or over on the railroad bed and then come back to meet the road farther on. She has a way of writing that travels a parallel track with ordinary conversational language."

-Ted Kooser, US Poet Laureate, 2004-2006

Review Quotes

"Hollander's impeccable conversational diction does just what a poem should do; it raises the hairs on the nape of your neck."

-Maxine Kumin, US Poet Laureate, 1981-1982

"Andrea Hollander knows what to hold back as she lets us in. And so we willingly bring ourselves into her subtly registered emotional world. There's a lovely blend of qualities-an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees."

-Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2001

"Some days, I think that hope is such a long way away, and then I read a poet like this-and life is in full gear."

-Grace Cavalieri, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 2019

"I wish that other people would write about personal experience the way Hollander does: there's so much wisdom and depth in her poems that I'm forced more deeply into my own life, and I emerge knowing things I didn't know, or didn't know I knew."

-Martha Collins, William Carlos Williams Award, 2022