Spectral Evidence
Poems
Published on 30. January 2024
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-5247-3178-6 (ISBN)
Description
"This is the author's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest. Moving fluidly between considerations of the hip-hop group NWA, Tituba (the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials), MOVE (the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department ('flames rose like orchids ... blocks lay open like egg cartons'))--and more, Pardlo ponders the development of his own identity and sense of self as it was shaped against the glaring forces of whiteness"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
4 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
288 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5247-3178-6 (9781524731786)
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GREGORY PARDLO's collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Pardlo is also the author of Air Traffic, a memoir in essays, and Totem. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Nation, The New York Times, and elsewhere. His other honors include fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Pardlo is poetry editor at Virginia Quarterly Review, codirector for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University, and a visiting associate professor of practice in Literature & Creative writing at NYU Abu Dhabi.