The Next Country
By Idra Novey
2008
First Published
4.15
Average Rating
80
Number of Pages
In these powerful lyric poems, Idra Novey’s exploration of “country” extends beyond national boundaries into the countries of marriage and family, history and the unspoken, leading to a bold and imaginative reckoning of the self with the larger world.
Avg Rating
4.15
Number of Ratings
52
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Idra Novey
Author · 9 books
Idra Novey is the award-winning author of WAYS TO DISAPPEAR and THOSE WHO KNEW. Her new novel TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is set in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia where parts of her family have lived for over a century. She's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and she received a 2022 Pushcart Prize for her story The Glacier. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages. She teaches fiction at Princeton University and in the MFA Program at NYU.
