Professor Ben Grossberg Publishes Two New Books

The first is his fourth collection of poems, My Husband Would, published by the University of Tampa Press:

https://utampapress.org/product/my-husband-would-2

My Husband Would, investigates love and family—both the families we are born into and those we create for ourselves.  Funny, cinematic, and inventive, his poems recount family lore—a mother’s options, the clouded circumstances of a distant marriage—side by side with the perplexities of contemporary romance.  And they are charged with the recent national legalization of same-sex marriage—for many, a radical dawning of possibility, even as it quickly becomes uncontroversial, even unremarkable, in large parts of the country.  

The second is a co-edited collection, The Poetry of Capital, an anthology which brings together poems about the power of money in America: 

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5723.htm

What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the impact of global economic crises to local tag sales, from the subversive effects of dark money on politics to the freedom granted by a summer job, from sweatshops where our clothes are produced to the malls where they are sold, this volume gets to the heart of Americans’ relationships to capital as only poetry can. Editors Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini selected poems to reflect broad themes of labor, history and economic forces, social equity, and the environment.

Check out the books yourself on the links above. They make great gifts for the holiday season.