Ceiling of Sticks

Informationen zum Autor Shane Book is an award-winning poet and filmmaker, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His book of poetry, Congotronic, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2015. His other honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award. Klappentext Shane Book is an award-winning poet and filmmaker, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His book of poetry, Congotronic, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2015.¿His other honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award. Zusammenfassung A powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. This collection bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Shane Book's poems carry us to Uganda! Ghana! Mali! Trinidad! and Canada's west coast; from a religious sacrifice in Tarahumara! Mexico! to Book's ailing grandfather's bedside. Inhaltsverzeichnis ILitost: A Style ManualThe OneHomecomingThe Lost ConquistadorPhotograph of Religious sacrifice, Tarahumara, Mexico, 1984Santa CruzStark RoomDustUganda, 1997MistakesThe BeachOffering        IISan Fernando, Trinidad, 1954Blind woman of GondanShaving my grandfather in his hospital bed(2)The MarketMy peopleShaving my grandfather in his hospital bed (1)Stop IIITo A Curl of Water

Product details

• Authors: Shane Book
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9780803215580
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-1558-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in; Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schoo; The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies