West Portal - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Benjamin GucciardiSeries:Agha Shahid Ali Prize in PoetryPublish date:2021-07-30Pages:64
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Utah PressISBN-13:9781647690403ISBN-10:1647690404UPC:9781647690403Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.30 x 5.80 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SC1Y9W0FET
Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles--the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that "the local is the only thing that is universal," West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet's sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful, observant, elegiac, pained, dreamlike, philosophical, and compassionate, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other?
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Utah PressISBN-13:9781647690403ISBN-10:1647690404UPC:9781647690403Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.30 x 5.80 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SC1Y9W0FET
Benjamin Gucciardi's first book, West Portal, (University of Utah Press, 2021), was selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was named a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage (Quarterly West, 2021), winner of the 2020 Quarterly West Chapbook contest, and I Ask My Sister's Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2020). His poems appear in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, POETRY Magazine and elsewhere.
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