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Spectator (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry)
Kara Candito
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Description for Spectator (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry)
Paperback. Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize in 2013 Series: Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 113.
Kara Candito's second poetry collection is anything but a comedy, although it ends happily. At the book's centre is the struggle of a U.S. citizen and a Mexican citizen to find a common space and language in their relationship while navigating the U.S. immigration system, a process that sometimes requires magical thinking just to endure. By employing a kind of documentary poetics that views the application process through different angles and perspectives, Candito crafts discourses around xenophobia, otherness, and national and ethnic identity.
""In the waiting room of the third government office, / you will invent your own religion,"" ... Read more
Kara Candito's second poetry collection is anything but a comedy, although it ends happily. At the book's centre is the struggle of a U.S. citizen and a Mexican citizen to find a common space and language in their relationship while navigating the U.S. immigration system, a process that sometimes requires magical thinking just to endure. By employing a kind of documentary poetics that views the application process through different angles and perspectives, Candito crafts discourses around xenophobia, otherness, and national and ethnic identity.
""In the waiting room of the third government office, / you will invent your own religion,"" ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Series
Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607813514
SKU
V9781607813514
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About Kara Candito
Kara Candito is a creative writing professor at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville, and a co-curator of the Monsters of Poetry reading series in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the recipient of scholarships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Council for Wisconsin Writers, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Santa Fe Arts Institute. Her work ... Read more
Reviews for Spectator (Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry)
"The fluidity of the writing, the lift of the heart, the self-deprecating humor, and the aggregate of the understated losses add up to, in Kara Candito's second collection, a kind of brilliance and readability all too rare. These new poems are alive with the personality and honesty of a young poet at the beginning of true art." —Stanley Plumly ... Read more