Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry – serie
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17 produkter
Descartes' Nightmare
Av Susan McCabe
Häftad, 2008
168 kr
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The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English.Descartes’ Nightmare is the 2007 …
Spectator
Av Kara Candito
Häftad, 2014
168 kr
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Kara Candito's second poetry collection is anything but a comedy, although it ends happily. At the book's centre is the struggle of a U.S. citizen and a Mexican citizen to find a common space and language in their relationship while navigating the U.S. immigration system, a process that sometimes …
Her Mouth As Souvenir
Häftad, 2018
184 kr
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In a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime, from begging to bravado, from despair to reverie, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures belief in the absence …
Two Signatures
Häftad, 2024
216 kr
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In Two Signatures, Sara Ellen Fowler initiates her readers into a synesthetic contract of close attention and deep feeling. From the wood floor of an art museum buckling with Lake Michigan moisture, to the mud-packed hooves of the horse of childhood, to an art student’s spit on a pane of mirrored …
Estate Sale
Av Dan Murphy
Häftad, 2025
216 kr
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Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in PoetryIn a house full of stanzas found in Estate Sale, Dan Murphy opens the door on the objects of his life: accumulated experience and imagination, trauma, personal and political history, inheritances that subtly unearth the forces of the world. Loss becomes …
Afterlight
Av Caleb Nolen
Häftad, 2026
206 kr
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Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry“When I wake I’m in ninth grade again,” begins “Reunion,” the first poem in Caleb Nolen’s debut collection Afterlight. These haunting, tender poems revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s.Told …
Things That Burn
Av Jacqueline Berger, R. Lyman m. fl.
Häftad, 2005, 12-15 år
168 kr
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The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized author of numerous collections of poetry and a former professor at the University of Utah. Things That Burn by Jacqueline Berger is the 2004 prizewinning volume selected by this year’s judge, …
Fire Pond
Häftad, 2009
184 kr
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The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. Fire Pond is the 2008 prizewinning …
In the Human Zoo
Häftad, 2011
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Honoring the memory of a celebrated poet and a beloved teacher, the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry is awarded annually and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. In the Human Zoo reveals encounters with a world that is both fragile and …
Night Radio
Av Kim Young
Häftad, 2012
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Set against the sprawling backdrop of Los Angeles, Night Radio excavates the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young girl and the resulting layers of trauma exacted upon her and her family. Working within the paradox of the insufficiency of language and the necessity of expression, these poems …
Rival
Av Sara Wallace
Häftad, 2015
184 kr
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In The Rival, Sara Wallace takes her readers on an intimate journey through a woman’s solitary, surreal rural childhood and her brutal, sexually fraught first marriage to the conflicted redemption she finds in motherhood and a second chance at love. In this debut poetry collection, Wallace reveals …
Bad Summon
Häftad, 2017
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Bad Summon explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss, traveling between death and mountains, romance and rivers. They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret. …
Catechesis
A Postpastoral
Häftad, 2019
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Winner of the 2018 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry""A girl has two choices: / to be a tree or / to be the forest."" Catechesis combines Grimm fairy tales with horror movies and the Book of Revelation to construct a vision of the dangers and apocalyptic transformations inherent in girlhood. This …
Gone Bird in the Glass Hours
A Poem Play
Häftad, 2020
184 kr
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Zachary Asher's second collection, gone bird in the glass hours, is a play in verse, featuring seven voices. It begins with a rabbi, bewildered and bent by personal grief, guided and beguiled by elusive Blue Postman into the world of 'the glass hours' and its inhabitants.Rooted in magical realism, …
Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble
Häftad, 2022
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Inside this debut collection, girlhood’s dangers echo, transmuted, in the poet’s fears for her son. A body just discovering the vastness of “want’s new acreage” is humbled by chronic illness. Epithalamion turns elegy. But this world that so often seems capricious in its cruelty also shelters apple …
B/RDS
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an …
