Roze & Blud
Author | : Jayson Iwen |
Publisher | : Miller Williams Poetry Prize |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781682261323 |
ISBN-13 | : 1682261328 |
Rating | : 4/5 (328 Downloads) |
Download or read book Roze & Blud written by Jayson Iwen and published by Miller Williams Poetry Prize. This book was released on 2020 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a book-length series of persona poems, Jayson Iwen examines the intimate thoughts and feelings of Americans whose lives have been predominantly ignored by contemporary mainstream culture. Through the eyes of a teenage girl growing up in a trailer park and a retired veteran sharing an apartment with an Afghan refugee, Iwen reveals the everyday heartbreak and beauty experienced by people living at the periphery of the nation's consciousness. Roze and Blud is gritty, gut-wrenching, gorgeous, and ultimately transcendent. It is a Spoon River Anthology for the 21st Century, a Waste Land for the heartland. Roze and Blud is a virtuoso performance, the kind of book that fundamentally transforms the way you see the world after you have experienced it... because you don't read it, you experience it. In addition to winning the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, Roze and Blud was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Green Rose Prize, as well as a semi-finalist for the Wheeler Prize and the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes"--