The Book of What Stays (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

Crews, James

ISBN 10: 0803236352 / ISBN 13: 9780803236356

Published by Bison Books, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of What Stays (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803236352
• ISBN 13: 9780803236356
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist’s wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here, in Crews’s finely wrought, deeply felt poems, is their testimony.

About the Author

James Crews was the 2009 recipient of the Prairie Schooner Bernice Slote Award for Emerging Writers. He is the author of What Has Not Yet Left, winner of the 2009 Copperdome Prize; One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes; and Bending the Knot, winner of the 2008 Gertrude Press Chapbook Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.