Ceiling of sticks /

Ceiling of sticks /

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Author / Creator:Book, Shane.
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (x, 64 pages)
Language:English
Series:Prairie schooner book prize in poetry
Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.
Subject:
Poetry.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11244533
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ISBN:9780803234376
0803234376
9780803215580
0803215584
1283051036
9781283051033
9786613051035
6613051039
Notes:English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Book, Shane. Ceiling of sticks. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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