Angela Ball – författare

Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance HayesWinner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and LettersAngela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.

Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. The book centers around the sudden death of the author’s long-time partner and travels outward to events in the world at large. Imagining themselves into multiple times, places, and lives, the poems comically explore the possibilities of attachment between people and the absurdity of death’s sudden intrusion. Antic and often funny, these poems converse with all that we care about, fear, and fail to understand.

Included in LitHub’s Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful. The book’s temporal setting is the two years of extra life granted a partner after catastrophic illness and surgery: love’s last compelling season.

This anthology showcases what Angela Ball terms the “New York School diaspora,” poems by writers who honor the virtues of the original four New York School poets: Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. These poems are driven by play, wit, the chaos of reality, and the belief that, to paraphrase Frank O’Hara, life is too important to strangle with seriousness.Afterlives of the New York School of Poets features poetry by many poetic descendants of the New York School of Poets, an informal movement whose salutary effects have grown and broadened from its beginning seventy-five years ago. In her commentary, Ball captures their continuing influence and extends their spirit of playfulness into poetic analysis. With its eighty-two poems accompanied by lively, accessible, and wide-ranging commentary, Ball proves that the New York School of Poets continues to inspire succeeding generations of writers.This rigorous but compelling collection is an invaluable resource for readers, students, teachers, and writers of poetry.With an introduction from leading literary and cultural critic and poet David Lehman, whose work celebrates American poetry through a comprehensive study of the New York School of Poets and his role as founder-editor of a series of contemporary poetry anthologies.

This anthology showcases what Angela Ball terms the "e;New York School diaspora,"e; poems by writers who honor the virtues of the original four New York School poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. These poems are driven by play, wit, the chaos of reality, and the belief that, to paraphrase Frank O'Hara, life is too important to strangle with seriousness.Afterlives of the New York School of Poets features poetry by many poetic descendants of the New York School of Poets, an informal movement whose salutary effects have grown and broadened from its beginning seventy-five years ago. In her commentary, Ball captures their continuing influence and extends their spirit of playfulness into poetic analysis. With its eighty-two poems accompanied by lively, accessible, and wide-ranging commentary, Ball proves that the New York School of Poets continues to inspire succeeding generations of writers.This rigorous but compelling collection is an invaluable resource for readers, students, teachers, and writers of poetry.With an introduction from leading literary and cultural critic and poet David Lehman, whose work celebrates American poetry through a comprehensive study of the New York School of Poets and his role as founder-editor of a series of contemporary poetry anthologies.

This anthology showcases what Angela Ball terms the "e;New York School diaspora,"e; poems by writers who honor the virtues of the original four New York School poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler. These poems are driven by play, wit, the chaos of reality, and the belief that, to paraphrase Frank O'Hara, life is too important to strangle with seriousness.Afterlives of the New York School of Poets features poetry by many poetic descendants of the New York School of Poets, an informal movement whose salutary effects have grown and broadened from its beginning seventy-five years ago. In her commentary, Ball captures their continuing influence and extends their spirit of playfulness into poetic analysis. With its eighty-two poems accompanied by lively, accessible, and wide-ranging commentary, Ball proves that the New York School of Poets continues to inspire succeeding generations of writers.This rigorous but compelling collection is an invaluable resource for readers, students, teachers, and writers of poetry.With an introduction from leading literary and cultural critic and poet David Lehman, whose work celebrates American poetry through a comprehensive study of the New York School of Poets and his role as founder-editor of a series of contemporary poetry anthologies.