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2019 National Poetry Series Winners

2019 National Poetry Series Winners

Author:
Diane Louie, Sherod Santos, Halpern, Daniel
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Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series.

The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Diane Louie on Fractal Shores: Poems, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript, Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours: Poems.

Carlo Rovelli, Italian physicist, says that “the world is not a collection of things, it is a collection of events.” Louie thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. They draw on experience, image, metaphor, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion, spinning while orbiting and actively shifting our point of view. Fractal Shores: Poems marries the inquiries of science and spiritual longing to illuminate what they – and we – have in common: a desire to understand our presence in a universe that does not yield ultimate answers.

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Sherod Santos

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Sherod Santos is a poet and essayist and the author of seven books of poetry including The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, The Perishing, The Pilot Star Elegies, The City of Women; The Southern Reaches; and Accidental Weather, which was selected for the National Poetry Series. He also published A Poetry of Two Minds, a collection of his essays. In Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton), which was long-listed for the National Book Award, Sherod Santos offers a poetic meditation that draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook, and reverie, piecing together moments in the aftermath of a breakdown. In these poems, the speaker turns his focus to reality in its minute particulars: the palsied hand of a grocery clerk; copulating flies on a windowsill; a deep gouge, like a bullet hole, in his apartment door. Square Inch Hours alludes to his urge to capture each moment, as in the square of a photograph. Through intense sensual perception, he begins to reconnect with the world. Best selling author Amy Bloom called it a “brilliant collection, where the incisive, rhythmic imagery of poetry meets the depth and narrative of fiction. Every page evokes and invites the reader to see more clearly, to imagine more wildly, to read and to breathe more deeply.”

Halpern, Daniel

Daniel Halpern is the author of eight collections of poetry, and has received numerous grants and awards (including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the 1993 PEN Publisher Citation). For twenty-five years he edited the literary magazine Antaeus. He is currently Editorial Director of The Ecco Press/HarperCollins.

Diane Louie

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Diane Louie was born in Newfoundland and grew up in Connecticut. Her work has appeared in Epoch, Arts & Letters, FIELD, TriQuarterly, Cloudbank and elsewhere. She thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. In Fractal Shores (University of Georgia Press), selected by Sherod Santos for the National Poetry Series, they draw on experience, image, metaphor, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion. They spin while orbiting, shifting our point of view. Marrying the inquiries of science and spiritual longing can illuminate what they–and we–have in common: a desire to understand our presence in a universe that does not yield ultimate answers.

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