Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry – serie
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Hard Damage
Av Aria Aber
Häftad, 2019
221 kr
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Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the …
Ceiling of Sticks
Av Shane Book
Häftad, 2010
235 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Book's collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Book's poems carry us to Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Trinidad, and …
Darkened Temple
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
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"Longing itself is nothing but the heart's open spaces," writes Mari L'Esperance. And in the open spaces at the heart of these poems is a mother who has disappeared. In a world of war and displacement, illness of the mind and body, imprisonment and violence both historical and personal, the poet …
Book of What Stays
Av James Crews
Häftad, 2011
235 kr
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For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us …
Mind Like This
Häftad, 2012
235 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, literary history, popular culture, and more. Everything is fair …
Notes for My Body Double
Av Paul Guest
Häftad, 2007
235 kr
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Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in …
Fetish
Poems
Häftad, 2013
251 kr
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From sensual pleasures and perils, moments and memories of darkness and light, the poems in Orlando Ricardo Menes’s collection sew together stories of dislocation and loss, of survival and hope, and of a world patched together by a family over five generations of diaspora. This is Menes’s tapestry …
Famous
Häftad, 2006
235 kr
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She “became famous, finally, to herself,” Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken’s first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here “a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my …
No Confession, No Mass
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in No Confession, No Mass move toward restoration and reunion.Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the …
Cannibal
Häftad, 2016
251 kr
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Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable, often mirrored …
Reliquaria
Häftad, 2014
235 kr
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In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems …
Zoo at Night
Häftad, 2017
235 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat’s The Zoo at Night reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as “night thoughts” resembling nocturnes, in which “a bit of light leaks …
American Radiance
Häftad, 2018
235 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author’s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn’t try to provide an answer. …
Some Are Always Hungry
Av Jihyun Yun
Häftad, 2020
221 kr
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family’s wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom trauma through the lens of food, or the lack thereof. Through the vehicle of recipe, butchery, and dinner table poems, the collection negotiates the myriad …
Dear Diaspora
Av Susan Nguyen
Häftad, 2021
235 kr
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Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American StudiesNew Mexico-Arizona Book Award WinnerJulie Suk Award FinalistDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on …
Might Kindred
Häftad, 2022
235 kr
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Eric Hoffer Book Award Category FinalistThe poems of Might Kindred wonder aloud: can we belong to one another, and “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, MÓnica Gomery explores the intimately …
Let Our Bodies Change the Subject
Av Jared Harél
Häftad, 2023
235 kr
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Finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize Let Our Bodies Change the Subject is a poetry collection that dives headlong into the terrifying, wondrous, sleep-deprived existence of being a parent in twenty-first-century America. In clear, dynamic …
Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body
Häftad, 2024
235 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryJagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent. In this five-part testimony Lory Bedikian reconstructs the father figure, mother figure, …
Death Does not End at the Sea
Häftad, 2025
235 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryIn Gbenga Adesina’s debut book of poems, a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and spiritual odysseys, we encounter figures embarking on journeys haunted by history-a son keeps dreaming he carried his dead father across the …
Pyrrhic Symphony
Häftad, 2026
221 kr
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryIn Pyrrhic Symphony, the speaker asks, "Should a poem be the pill or the pharmacy?" And the book replies: Why not both? It ails and wails, blooms and wilts, but always breathes, just as anyone reading this does. Part siren songs, part …
Taste of Cherry
Av Kara Candito
Häftad, 2009
233 kr
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In Kara Candito's prize-winning debut collection a "garish/human theatre" comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the "glitzy chain-link of Chanel scarves" and Puccini's Tosca meets the …
