By the Book: Reading with Peter Balakian, Alan Shapiro, and Stuart Dischell

Описание: Archive of our April 20 By the Book virtual event: Reading with the Spring 2022 Phoenix Poets: Peter Balakian, Alan Shapiro, and Stuart Dischell.

ABOUT THE BOOKS:
Peter Balakian is the author of eight books of poems including 'Ozone Journal,' which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and 'Ziggurat,' both published by the University of Chicago Press. His memoir 'Black Dog of Fate' won the PEN/Albrand Award and was a New York Times notable book, and 'The Burning Tigris' won the Raphael Lemkin Prize and was a New York Times bestseller and New York Times notable book. He is Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Colgate University. In 'No Sign,' Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture.

Alan Shapiro has written many books of poetry and prose, most recently 'Against Translation,' 'That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration' and 'Reel to Reel,' which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, among others, and has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his dog, Sammy. His collection of new poems, 'Proceed to Check Out,' is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife.

Stuart Dischell is the author of six collections of poetry, including 'Dig Safe,' 'Backwards Days,' and 'Children with Enemies,' the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. His first collection, 'Good Hope Road,' was selected for the National Poetry Series, and he has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation. Dischell teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 'The Lookout Man'—sometimes elegiac, sometimes deadly comic, and always transformative—embodies the energy, spirit, and craft that we have come to depend upon in Dischell’s poetry.

Learn more about the books & order:
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https://www.semcoop.com/no-sign
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