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 prizewinning volume selected by this year s judge, Cole Swenson, of the Iowa Writers Workshop.
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 Unive...
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 volume selected by this year s judge, Medbh McGuckian, poet, editor, and teacher from Belfast."
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 Univers...
Although it ends with a marriage, Kara Candito s second poetry collection is anything but a comedy. At the book s center 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 requires magical thinking just to endure. By employing a kind of documentary poetics that views the application process through different angles and perspectives, Candito crafts discourses around xenophobia, otherness, and national and ethnic identity. In the waiting room of the third...
Although it ends with a marriage, Kara Candito s second poetry collection is anything but a comedy. At the book s center is the struggle of a U.S. cit...
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 how closely emotional devastation and transcendence can coexist. "The Rival "is sensuous, darkly humorous, and frequently luminous in its unflinching exploration of the inner life. "
In "The Rival," Sara Wallace takes her readers on an intimate journey through a woman s solitary, surreal rural childhood and her brutal, sexually ...
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 elevate overwhelming experiences into near-mythic narrative. Night Radio s attempt through art to make sense of a seemingly senseless world raises troubling and timeless questions about the value, necessity, and futility of the aesthetic act. At the heart of the book is a journey toward...
Set against the sprawling backdrop of Los Angeles, "Night Radio" excavates the kidnapping and sexual assault of a young girl and the resulting laye...
Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the poems in Davis McCombs's third collection exist along the fraught lines where nature and agriculture collide or in those charged moments where modernity intrudes on an archaic world. These poems celebrate out-of-the-way places, the lore of plants, wild animals and their unknowable lives, and nearly forgotten ways of being and talking and doing. Rendered in a language of great lexical juxtapositions, here are days of soil and labor, nights...
Drawn from the rich folk traditions of his native Mammoth Cave region in Kentucky as well as the folklore of his adopted Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, ...
Explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss, travelling between death and mountains, romance and rivers. They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret.
Explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss...
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.
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 b...
