Synopses & Reviews
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. It's a collection that makes things spring to sight"--Cole Swensen. Be sure to check out Maxine Chernoff's other books, including EVOLUTION OF THE BRIDGE, WORLD and SOME OF HER FRIENDS THAT YEAR, all available from SPD.
About the Author
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 eight books of poetry, most recently The Turning (2008) and Among the Names (2005), both from Apogee Press. She currently lives in Mill Valley, California with her husband and three children.