Bad Summon (The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) - Softcover

Schaefer, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607815540 ISBN 13: 9781607815549

Verlag: UNIV OF UTAH PR, 2017

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Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize

Bad Summon explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others. The poems are dipped in loss, traveling between death and mountains, romance and rivers. They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret. Bad Summon conjures its own ghost. According to David Baker, the judge who selected the winning manuscript, this is a “surprising, coherent, original collection of lyric poems. I felt peril, heartbreak, catastrophe, sorrow, genuine soulfulness. It’s also funny, yet its humor is not comic but possesses a terrible gravity.” This is a volume every poetry lover will want to explore.

[In this one we aren’t exactly drowning]
but we are falling through water.
Quieter than we expect. Churning
is how we’ll later describe it.
Our arms dig out two wet Cs,
a heart if you want to look at it
that way. Though the body is always
in between—that unoriginal arrow. 

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Philip Schaefer is the author of three chapbooks, two cowritten with friend and poet Jeff Whitney. He won the Meridian Editor’s Prize in poetry in 2016. He received his MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF UTAH PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1607815540
• ISBN 13: 9781607815549
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88
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