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John Keene Wins National Book Award
"As he stood at the dais after receiving the award and searched for a sentiment to capture his feelings, Keene said, 'I'm actually crying. I'm in shock!' much to the delight of the audience. After the warm laughter died down, he continued, 'I put together some notes because I said, in the improbable instance that I actually receive this award, all the words—I work with words, right?—would fly right out of my head.'"
via Rutgers School of Arts & Sciences-Newark |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Christine De Luca on Jidi Majia’s “The Enduring One”
"Reading the poem I was given, ‘The Enduring One’, I sensed a flavour of the Old Testament books of Genesis and Proverbs, of Norse sagas, of the Finnish Origin stories as told in the Kalevala. There was the same sensual lyricism, the fabulous nature of the tales and the sheer urgency of telling. Also the sense of long kinship, the importance of genealogy and the need to remember, especially heroic forebears." |
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