The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025 | Angie Estes | Poetry
The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems,1995-2025 by Angie Estes, with an introduction by Stephanie Burt.
The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025 brings together three decades of Angie Estes’s extraordinary linguistic alchemy. Opening with selections from her newest collection, Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, and including selections from her acclaimed previous books, these poems illuminate connections between art, memory, and desire.
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The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025, Angie Estes
Foreword by Stephanie Burt
$28.00
ISBN: 978-1-968274-02-3
Fine Softcover; 100+ pages; 6″x9″
Publication Date: March 17, 2026
Summary
The Swallows Come Out: Selected Poems, 1995-2025 brings together three decades of Angie Estes’s extraordinary linguistic alchemy. Opening with selections from her newest collection, Last Day on Earth in the Eternal City, and including selections from her acclaimed previous books, these poems illuminate connections between art, memory, and desire.
Estes weaves together classical mythology and contemporary longing, European art and American landscapes, creating a tapestry where Dante converses with Miles Davis, swallows become stars, and the past is ignites our lives. Her signature style — playful yet profound, erudite yet accessible — transforms everyday moments into revelations through stunning juxtapositions.
Whether exploring the mosaics of Hagia Sophia, the vineyards of Burgundy, or a mother’s handwriting, Estes finds the sacred in the quotidian. This essential collection confirms her position as one of our most distinctive voices, a poet who makes language itself a form of devotion, a way of entering the world.
Author
Angie Estes is the author of seven previous books of poems. Among her many honors are the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Prize for Lesbian Poetry, the FIELD Poetry Prize, and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her book Tryst was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. She has received fellowships from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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