Fire in the Conservatory

Linda Gregerson's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and the selection of her fourth book, Magnetic North, as a National Book Award finalist. She is a professor at the University of Michigan, and is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Fire in the Conservatory, her celebrated first book, is now made available again for the first time in nearly two decades.

Gregerson manages to pair narrative immediacy with intricate orchestration, creating a kind of writing that hustles us along even as it reaches back through complicated echoes of earlier moments.