The Body Distances (Juniper Prize for Poetry): (a Hundred Blackbirds Rising) - Softcover

Wagenaar, Mark

 
9781625342201: The Body Distances (Juniper Prize for Poetry): (a Hundred Blackbirds Rising)

Synopsis

The Body Distances is filled with long, limber, nimble poems at once ecstatic and elegiac. These poems are odes to the miraculous embedded in the everyday, in which “the unlikely continues / to dovetail with the present.”

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About the Author

Mark Wagenaar is a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas in Denton. He is the 2014 winner of the Pinch Poetry Award, the New Letters Poetry Prize, and the Mary C. Mohr Poetry Prize, as well as the 2013 winner of the James Wright Poetry Prize, the Poetry International Prize, and the Yellowwood Poetry Prize. Wagenaar served as the University of Mississippi’s 2014 Summer Poet in Residence. His debut manuscript, Voodoo Inverso, was the 2012 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize. His poems have been published or accepted by the New Yorker, 32 Poems, Field, Image, Subtropics, Ninth Letter, Washington Square, Shenandoah, and the Missouri Review.

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