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The City, Our City

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 city — past, present, and future — ring out with urgency. These poems — in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful — give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 104
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781571314451
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2011