Domestica (Miller Williams Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Samuel Piccone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682262847 ISBN 13: 9781682262849

Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press, 2026

Synopsis

Samuel Piccone's Domestica firmly plants its feet at the fraught intersection of inheritance and the escape from it. Across these interrogative poems, the routines of marriage, parenthood, and faith reside in a place where "every garden is erased / by the thrum of impermanence." If "silence is the earth's way of embracing us / in whatever loneliness we think we deserve," Piccone seeks whatever answers are held in the deepest recesses of that silence. At once aphoristic and vulnerable, these poems insist that "the stars are there to ache us into asking whatever we haven't / brought ourselves to ask." To startle us into paying attention to the world.

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About the Author

Samuel Piccone is the author of the chapbook Pupa. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Sycamore Review, Frontier Poetry, Washington Square Review, and RHINO. He serves as poetry editor at Raleigh Review and is a lecturer at Iowa State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682262847
• ISBN 13: 9781682262849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80