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The City, Our City: Poems
The City, Our City: Poems
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A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012
A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any citypast, present, and futurering out with urgency. These poemsin turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyfulgive hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012
A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry Pick
A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any citypast, present, and futurering out with urgency. These poemsin turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyfulgive hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
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