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A National Book Award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman has been named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and has been lauded by The Boston Globe as "an important voice in American literature." He is one of the most well known and beloved literary writers of his generation, with works such as The Long Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Reservation Blues and has received numerous awards and citations, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Fiction and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award.

Formally adventurous, emotionally and musically rich, Charles North's poetry has received numerous honors, including two NEA grants and four Fund for Poetry Awards. In Cadenza, he displays all the qualities that made James Schuyler call him "the most stimulating poet of his generation" and the Washington Post hail him as "one of the most memorable of contemporary poets."

William Corbett - Boston Phoenix

Charles North's Cadenza continues his pursuit of what poetry can be. His poems are improbable and wholehearted engagements of a man's imagination with life and language, which, here, are presented as harmonious entities. While North adeptly commands life-giving language in an eight-line poem like "My Ship Has Sails," he is equally as adventurous with longer works like "Cadenza" and "Boul' Mich." His work displays a particular ability to turn on a dime, yet also allows a beautiful poem such as "Romantic Note" to remain that. There's nothing fussy or experimental here, just freestanding poems of original and exhilarating character, devoid of overbearing description.