Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry – serie
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Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era
Av Chad Bennett
Häftad, 2020
177 kr
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Shirley Temple tap dancing at the Kiwanis Club, Stevie Nicks glaring at Lindsey Buckingham during a live version of “Silver Springs,” Frank Ocean lyrics staking new territory on the page: this is a taste of the cultural landscape sampled in Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era. Chad …
Index of Haunted Houses
Häftad, 2020
174 kr
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This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors, slam doors, and issue sudden gusts of wind. …
Stay Safe
Av Emma Hine
Häftad, 2021
168 kr
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At the center of this stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark, their mother has a brain tumor, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy …
White Bull
Häftad, 2022
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Composed entirely of words taken from the letters and public statements of the notorious segregationist Bull Connor, the poems in White Bull use language that was wielded in violence and oppression to reckon with the present moment. The city of Birmingham is a character too, with its suffocating …
Hoodwinked
Häftad, 2011
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"Ultimately, the lyrics in Hoodwinked read as odes to mortality. They marvel nonstop, unsentimentally, and with necessary ambivalence, at the world as given and the human inability to consistently rise to the exhausting challenge of making every second count. These poems constantly acknowledge that …
Easy Math
Häftad, 2013
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Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro’s poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers us a gimlet eye to the disappointments of the world, tall …
Thought That Nature
Av Trey Moody
Häftad, 2014
156 kr
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In the middle of the night, when the fruitis scariest. I hold my hand outand feel your nibbling. Don't worry,my eyes are still closed. I've onlypeeked that once. The coldthat is your breaththese windowsof fog. If I were outside,I'd read your name backward again and again.Trey Moody is from San …
Night We're Not Sleeping In
Av Sean Bishop
Häftad, 2015
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"Reading these poems is an uncanny experience. . . . We enter into this book alert to possibility, and leave knowing how asleep we've been."—Nick FlynnOf all the meanings of exposed I think my favoriteis the raw nerve shivering bug-like in the lamp lightwhile the surgeon arranges his dainty …
Solarium
Av Jordan Zandi
Häftad, 2016
154 kr
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"Solarium is a completely original gem of a book."—Henri Cole, from the forewordBowl of the lake. Bowl of the sky.Bowl of the lake with the sky in it. You looked at you in the water. The blizzard is cold.And the boy in the blizzard is blue. Jordan Zandi grew up in the rural Midwest, and in 2011 …
Antiquity
Häftad, 2016
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"The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."Mary Ruefle, from the introduction Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka’s Antiquity offers the present infused with the …
Fludde
Poems
Häftad, 2018
159 kr
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Selected by Dean Young as winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Fludde draws on Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience to critique and dismantle contemporary American values and conditioning: commodification, environmental negligence, corporate exploitation, toxic masculinity. At once …
Mothers Over Nangarhar
Av Pamela Hart
Häftad, 2019
168 kr
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Mothers Over Nangarhar is an unusual and powerful war narrative, focusing less on the front lines of combat and more on the home front, a perspective our American cultural canon has largely ignored after 222 years at war. In her stunning poetry debut, Pamela Hart concentrates on the fears and …
