"Kimbrell (My Psychic) pushes his readers to the limit in his frenetic and unceasingly visceral third collection....Kimbrell's poems will doubtless come crashing back as unexpected, haunting nodes of language." —Publishers Weekly "The poems in Smote speak of loss and the wanting of more life.... [Kimbrell] lets us feel what cannot be expressed, by any words." —NewPages

"Kimbrell (My Psychic) pushes his readers to the limit in his frenetic and unceasingly visceral third collection....Kimbrell's poems will doubtless come crashing back as unexpected, haunting nodes of language." —Publishers Weekly "The poems in Smote speak of loss and the wanting of more life.... [Kimbrell] lets us feel what cannot be expressed, by any words." —NewPages

"Smote is a book of the dark reality of our daily existence; it is a book of abiding grace."—Robert Olen ButlerI release you like the crank-addled truck driverreleases his cargo at the midnight dockuntil the warehouse is one in a trailof crumbs, little light left on behind him. James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic, and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He been the recipient of the Discovery/The Nation Award, a Whiting Award, a fellowship from the NEA, and a Morton Prize.
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A haunted American South as told by a boy hero In lush and comedic language reminiscent of Faulkner and O’Connor.
I. Free Checking! So Many Stories How to Tie a Knot Pluto’s Gate: Mississippi Take Me As I Am Ode: Feeling Up My Friend’s Sister at the Moment Their Drunken Father Begins the Dog Slaughter The Starting Point II. Apology after Returning to Hooker Street Thirty Years after We Moved It Was Like a Movie Smote Apocalyptic Lullaby The Full Ratio Roots My Father’s Friends Travel from the Afterlife to Attend His Memorial Elegy for My Mother’s Ex Boyfriend Kingfish III. Love Letter to You, Dear Reader Elegy for the Epic O Anna Lynn, You Must Have Known No Death in the Land of the Dead Chicken Brick’n There’s Nothing Wrong with You The Guitar Boat Not Soul Heuristic for the Nearsighted
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$2500 marketing and publicity budget Co-op available Galleys available: national mailings with special push to publications to publications that have previously published and reviewed Kimbrell National advertising in Poetry, Ploughshares, and relevant literary blogs and websites eBook available at same time as print publication, eBook ISBN to be included on all press materials and wherever print ISBN is listed. Author will promote both mediums through social media. Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs Electronic postcard to announce publication sent to Kimbrell's contacts
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781941411094
Publisert
2015-11-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Vekt
155 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
88

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Om bidragsyterne

James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and My Psychic, and the co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, and a past recipient of the Discovery / The Nation Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.