<div>Elise Partridge’s <i>The Exiles' Home Gallery</i> extends the range of her widely acclaimed earlier books,<i>Fielder’s Choice</i> and <i>Chameleon Hours,</i> praised as &quot;first-rate&quot; by James Pollock for their &quot;authenticity&quot; by Stephanie Bolster, and &quot;brilliant precisions that reflect life's plenitude&quot; by Rosanna Warren. This new book presents moving portraits of a gallery of characters from North America, from homeless men to a wildlife illustrator, from a mother struggling to pay the rent to a generous stove repairman. Poems that skewer the vanities and complacency of the powerful sit alongside works about loss, love, and resilience written from the author's perspective as a cancer patient. Stephen Burt has compared Partridge's &quot;impressive poems&quot; to Elizabeth Bishop's. With her “flawless ear” (Jacqueline Osherow) and “pitch-perfect verse” (Ken Babstock), Partridge reveals again the “unfeigned passion” and “ardent, compassionate, and unsentimental vision” that have made her books “thrilling, memorable.” (Robert Pinsky)<br></div>