The Americans

David Roderick's second book pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question: What does it mean to be an American?

About the author

David Roderick's first book of poems, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize. He has published poetry and fiction in several journals, including the Hudson Review, the Georgia Review, Indiana Review, New England Review, Poetry, the Southern Review, Slate, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Roderick is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and was awarded the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, among other honors. Poems from this collection have won Shenandoah's James Boatwright III Prize and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College. Roderick is associate professor of English in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Summary

The Americans is an attempt, in poetry, to document American life by juxtaposing past and present, history and imagination. Winner of the 2014 Juile Suk Award

Product details

• Authors: David Roderick
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2014
• EAN: 9780822963127
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6312-7
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 206 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies