The 2022 NBCC Award Winners Announced
Joy Harjo has won the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, while Cynthia Cruz was awarded the 2022 Award in Poetry. Committee chair Rebecca Morgan Frank praised the latter poet’s "'curation of carefully staged snapshots of inquiry,' in which emerge such questions as: 'What is a body and how can it possibly contain us? How does a poem move through the fragments of memory, knowledge, and images we each contain?'"
via NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Oliver Baez Bendorf on "I Want Biodegradable Sex"
"I am often suggesting to students that when it comes to style, we each have a 'terroir'— a particular flavor made up of the unique places and vocabularies that we have absorbed....But the thing is that terroir is not only style. It is substance. It is not even quite right to say that it is also substance. It is exactly that, substance. It’s the matter we are made of. Terroir is what you write and how you write it. The goal is to write what only you could." |
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