The Book of What Stays (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) - Softcover

Book 3 of 13: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Crews, James

 
9780803236356: The Book of What Stays (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803236352 ISBN 13: 9780803236356
Publisher: Bison Books, 2011

Synopsis

For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist’s wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here, in Crews’s finely wrought, deeply felt poems, is their testimony.

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About the Author

James Crews was the 2009 recipient of the Prairie Schooner Bernice Slote Award for Emerging Writers. He is the author of What Has Not Yet Left, winner of the 2009 Copperdome Prize; One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes; and Bending the Knot, winner of the 2008 Gertrude Press Chapbook Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Publisher
Bison Books
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0803236352
ISBN 13 
9780803236356
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
96