Poetry. "AMONG THE NAMES clicks along, making fast connections, which in turn create a vast and layered network--in short, an economy. Exploring the complexities of 'the gift,' Chernoff's is an economy of the uncanny--each exchange is strikingly new, yet many also make you remember, while others make you recognize connections that would otherwise have remained just out of reach. It's a collection that makes things spring to sight"--Cole Swensen. "This book is entirely beautiful"--Donald Revell.

Author City: MILL VALLEY, CA USA

Maxine Chernoff was born in Chicago, Illinois, in the year of 1952, where she grew up, and attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. Maxine Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With her husband, Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal NEW AMERICAN WRITING. She is the author of six books of fiction and nine books of poetry, most recently WITHOUT (Shearsman Books, 2012), TO BE READ IN THE DARK (Omnidawn, 2011), THE TURNING (Apogee Press, 2008), and AMONG THE NAMES (Apogee Press, 2005). She currently lives in Mill Valley, California, with her husband and three children.