Backwaters Prize in Poetry – serie
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Foxlogic, Fireweed
Häftad, 2020
204 kr
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Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Jennifer K. Sweeney’s Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains-floodplain, coast, desert, suburbia, and mesa-braiding themes of nature, domesticity, isolation, and human relationships.These are poems of the …
Laugh We Make When We Fall
Av Susan Firer
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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In Susan Firer’s The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies; snow drops, “with all their survivor ecstasies”; “windy caravans of lilacs”; and “Dali Lama-robed “ daylilies act as magnets to attract history-personal and historical-myths, language, facts, love, gratitude, prayers, beauty, and ”all the …
Long Rules
An Essay in Verse
Häftad, 2021
204 kr
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A book-length poem in six sections, Long Rules takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape. Its lines unspool in a loose and echoing blank verse that investigates monastic rules, sunlight, Saint …
Living Room
Häftad, 2022
237 kr
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Finalist for the 2023 Virginia Literary AwardsFinalist for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Book AwardDeeply phenomenological and ecological, Laura Bylenok’s poems in Living Room imagine the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life, including animals, plants, bacteria, buildings, and rocks. They …
Butterfly Nebula
Häftad, 2023
237 kr
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Gold Medal for the 2024 Illumination Book AwardHonorable Mention for the 2024 Catholic Media Association Book Award Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Butterfly Nebula reaches from the depths of the sea to the edges of space to chart intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the …
Dear Wallace
Häftad, 2024
237 kr
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Winner of the Backwaters Prize in PoetryDear Wallace addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of everyday responsibility. Exploring relationships between modernism, motherhood, poetry, and privilege, the …
Wolves in Shells
Häftad, 2025
237 kr
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Winner of the Backwaters Prize in PoetryWolves in Shells is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, trauma, and memories as she attempts to leave a violent partner. Reflecting on her familial heritage, this survivor grapples with the way she, the women of her …
HUM
Poems
Häftad, 2026
221 kr
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Winner of the Backwaters Prize in PoetryThe word "hum" in Urdu can mean both "we" and "I." In English, it's a gesture of sound—a vibration. Sanam Sheriff's HUM is a trans call to the beauty of attempt rather than the clarity of arrival. This book seeks as the pilgrim seeks, wandering from a plural …
