Providential
Published on 1. September 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-61775-405-0 (ISBN)
Description
Best-selling writer Colin Channer's debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61775-405-0 (9781617754050)
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Colin Channer was born in Jamaica to a pharmacist and cop. Junot Díaz calls him "one of the Caribbean Diaspora's finest writers." His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, The Common, and Renaissance Noire, among other places. Channer has served as Newhouse Professor in Creative Writing at Wellesley College and Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University. His many books of prose include the novella The Girl with the Golden Shoes, "a very moving and mesmerizing journey" in the words of Edwidge Danticat. He won the Silver Musgrave Medal in Literature in 2010 and currently lives in New England. Providential is his first poetry book.