Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry – serie
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Borrowed Dress
Av Cathy Colman
Häftad, 2001
187 kr
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With wry humour and unflinching honesty, Cathy Colman crosses the terrain of love, family and art, asking why we resist becoming the person we truly are.
Ripe
Häftad, 2002
187 kr
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In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the ""befuddlement"" of childhood, and the wisdom of the nursing child.
Reunion
Av Fleda Brown, Ronald Wallace
Häftad, 2007
187 kr
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The poems in ""Reunion"" insistently turn back toward sources: toward home and the idea of home, toward the body, and toward objects that return us to ourselves. They always surprise, moving from quantum mechanics, wildflowers, and a Bobcat driver to a woman killed by a flying deer, magma becoming …
Royal Baker's Daughter
Häftad, 2008
187 kr
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These poems, at once elegant and earthy, reveal the inner workings of the human psyche and show us that sometimes the best defense against terror is making mischief. The Royal Baker's Daughter was raised on a diet of stone soup and the occasional leftover royal treat. This leaves her with an …
LIGHTNING THAT STRIKES the NEIGHBORS' HOUSE
Av University of Wisconsin Press
Häftad, 2010
187 kr
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Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and microscopic—the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother …
Sleeve Waves
Av Angela Sorby
Häftad, 2014
219 kr
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Winner of the 2014 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.Inspired by thrift store knit sleeves, punk rock record sleeves, and, of course, print book sleeves, Angela Sorby explores how the concrete world hails us in waves of color and sound. She asks implicitly, “What makes the …
Blood Work
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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Matthew Siegel’s disquieting first book of poems, Blood Work, explores the inner workings of a life lived in vulnerability. The narrative voice here is vulnerable to his sickness—Crohn’s disease—as well as the “sickness” of loving. These poems are raw, exposed, and deeply authentic attempts to …
Ripe
Inbunden, 2002
201 kr
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In this collection of poems - which won the 2002 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry - topics range from a union barbershop in mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the ""befuddlement"" of childhood, and the wisdom of the nursing child.
Reunion
Av Fleda Brown, Ronald Wallace
Inbunden, 2007
346 kr
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The poems in ""Reunion"" insistently turn back toward sources: toward home and the idea of home, toward the body, and toward objects that return us to ourselves. They always surprise, moving from quantum mechanics, wildflowers, and a Bobcat driver to a woman killed by a flying deer, magma becoming …
Royal Baker's Daughter
Inbunden, 2008
346 kr
Tillfälligt slut
These poems, at once elegant and earthy, reveal the inner workings of the human psyche and show us that sometimes the best defense against terror is making mischief. The Royal Baker's Daughter was raised on a diet of stone soup and the occasional leftover royal treat. This leaves her with an …
