Instructions for Seeing a Ghost: 27 (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry)

Steve Bellin-Oka (author)

ISBN 10: 1574417878 / ISBN 13: 9781574417876

Edité par University of North Texas Press 2020-04-30, 2020

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• Titre: Instructions for Seeing a Ghost: 27 (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry)
• Éditeur: University of North Texas Press 2020-04-30
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1574417878
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781574417876
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry This poetry collection is the record of an American's return home after a decade abroad, an exile imposed solely because he loved another man. In a virtuoso display of lyric and formal inventiveness, Bellin-Oka's poems meditate on the myriad losses engendered by diaspora: of home, family and sexual identity, and spiritual certainty. "Steve Bellin-Oka's poems hold in balance an intensified language and a passionate voice that bring together the struggles of the inner life with stark realities. This is a book of arresting authenticity."--Peter Balakian, Pulitzer-Prize winner and judge From "Self-Portrait as the Chosen One" Long before I was what I am now, short of breath, bald, just returned with arthritic knees from exile in another country's muck and red volcanic soil, too near-sighted to discern the High Plains tumbleweed from the burning bush of myth, scorched now and silent, long before this, I was the first son my mother bore that lived. Number Twenty-seven: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry STEVE BELLIN-OKA is the author of a chapbook, Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station and is the recipient of a Tulsa Artists Fellowship in poetry. He has taught at the University of Mississippi and Eastern New Mexico University. He lives in Tulsa with his husband.

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STEVE BELLIN-OKA is the author of a chapbook, Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station and is the recipient of a Tulsa Artists Fellowship in poetry. He has taught at the University of Mississippi and Eastern New Mexico University. He lives in Tulsa with his husband.