Rickey Laurentiis

Boy with Thorn (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize Winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Selected by Terrance Hayes Finalist, 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creationthe imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981060
• Artikelnr.: 44155271

Autorenporträt

Rickey Laurentiis, is the winner of the 2018 Whiting Award for Poetry. He is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, as well as fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Washington University in St. Louis. His poems appear or are forthcoming inÊBoston Review, Fence, Kenyon Review, New England Review, New Republic, Poetry, and elsewhere.ÊBorn in New Orleans, Louisiana, he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.