Ceiling of sticks / Shane Book.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Book, Shane.

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Book's collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. 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. They bring an intimate vision of humanity to scenes of inhuman atrocity and suffering; a moment of clarity and empathy to individuals overwhelmed by war or other man-made catastrophes. The atte

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; I.; Litost: A Style Manual; The One; Homecoming; The Lost Conquistador; Photograph of Religious Sacrifice, Tarahumara, Mexico, 1984; Santa Cruz; Stark Room; Dust; Uganda, 1997; Mistakes; The Beach; Offering; II.; San Fernando, Trinidad, 1954; Blind Woman of Gondan; Shaving my grandfather in his hospital bed ( 1); The Market; My People; Shaving my grandfather in his hospital bed (2); Stop; III.; To a Curl of Water

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-05103-6

9786613051035

0-8032-3437-6

OCLC:

670411371