Synopsis
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America
Finalist for PEN America's Voelcker Poetry Award
Boston Globe's "Best Books of 2021"
Bookworm's "Top 10 Books of 2021"
Recognized for his "wildly original" poetry and his "uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative," Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has "razor-exacted" and "raw-wired" an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people.
At once an album of tales and portrait gallery and soundscape, "inscritched" dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their "old appetites as chronic as tides." From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring "time and time that yonder oak," this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
About the Author
Atsuro Riley is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America's Voelcker Poetry Award, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Bookworm Top 10 Book of the Year.
His 2010 book Romey's Order was the winner of the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress.
Riley's other honors include Lannan Foundation and NEA Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by POETRY magazine.
His poems have been anthologized in The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall, The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of POETRY Magazine, The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Poems of the American South, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, Poems from Far and Wide, Vinegar and Char, Gracious, and Home: 100 Poems.
Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.
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