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Simulacra
Airea D. Matthews
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Description for Simulacra
Paperback. Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 152. Weight in Grams: 90.
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this ... Read more
Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation, striving and thwarting, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword, series judge Carl Phillips calls this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300223965
SKU
V9780300223965
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About Airea D. Matthews
Airea D. Matthews was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Matthews's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poet, Four Way Review, The Missouri Review, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Detroit. Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of twelve books of poetry. His most recent work is ... Read more
Reviews for Simulacra
Matthews's writing is bold, innovative and complex. -Washington Post Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny. -Dan Chiasson, New Yorker There's manic, witty energy throughout and delight in the play of form and language. -Library Journal [A] deft, shape-shifting debut. . . . Matthews surveys the possible responses to what seems ineluctable, ... Read more