Unbound Edition Press today announced it will publish Jennifer Clarvoe’s third book of poetry, PIANO PIANO. The title is scheduled for publication in April 2026.
Jennifer Clarvoe is the author of two books of poetry: Invisible Tender (Fordham, 2000), and Counter-Amores (University of Chicago, 2011). Her awards and fellowships include the Kate Tufts Prize, the Poets Out Loud Prize, a residency at the James Merrill House, and the Rome Prize in Literature. She taught literature and creative writing at Kenyon College for many years. She lives in Somerville, MA, with her husband, Tony Sigel.
Natalie Shapero writes: “In PIANO PIANO, Jennifer Clarvoe takes her signature keen attention, gorgeous music, and all-around erudition to new and world-shattering places. Clarvoe’s poems immerse us in art conservation, street photography, birds and clocks and bird clocks. They trace literary and literal lineage; they burn with indelibility and burn their indelibility into us: ‘Don’t photograph that / I tell myself but my mind / snaps it anyway.’”
Peter Campion, executive editor at Unbound Edition Press, acquired PIANO PIANO for the house, and is editing the work. He writes: “Jennifer Clarvoe is a poet of consummate formal skill. She thinks and feels with the whole history of poetry in her bones, and yet there’s such spontaneity—such winning humor—in this book, even as the poet works to face mortality, come to terms with loss and grief.”
Patrick Davis, publisher and editor in chief at Unbound Edition Press, said, “Clarvoe dissents from conventional ways of describing mortality and loss and the connection between the living and the dead. She deftly weaves a linguistic texture that opens elegy into both recalled memory and tonal surprise.”
