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Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost. 

What seemed a mystery was
in fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow.
What seemed a memory was in fact
a dividing line. Insert bird for wind.
Insert wind for departure when everyone
is standing still. . .

Radio Crackling, Radio Gone was selected from the 1,200 submissions to the Hayden Carruth Award. By the time the anonymous manuscript was chosen as winner, the cover sheet was filled with readers' commentary: 'stunning' and 'lovely' and a bold 'YES!'

Radio Crackling, Radio Gone

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      Publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/12/2006
      ISBN13: 9781556592492, 978-1556592492
      ISBN10: 1556592493

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost. 

      What seemed a mystery was
      in fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow.
      What seemed a memory was in fact
      a dividing line. Insert bird for wind.
      Insert wind for departure when everyone
      is standing still. . .

      Radio Crackling, Radio Gone was selected from the 1,200 submissions to the Hayden Carruth Award. By the time the anonymous manuscript was chosen as winner, the cover sheet was filled with readers' commentary: 'stunning' and 'lovely' and a bold 'YES!'

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