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Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

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“Matthews’s writing is bold, innovative and complex.”—Washington Post

“Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.”—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker

“[A] deft, shape-shifting debut. . . . Matthews surveys the possible responses to what seems ineluctable, offering a work of intrepid imagination, inquiry, and strength.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“There’s manic, witty energy throughout and delight in the play of form and language.”—Library Journal

Winner of a 2016 Rona Jaffee Foundation Writer’s Award

Simulacra

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    A Paperback / softback by Airea D. Matthews, Carl Phillips

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 2 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9780300223965
      978-0300223965
      ISBN-10 030022396X
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      The arts: general topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

      Trade Review
      “Matthews’s writing is bold, innovative and complex.”—Washington Post

      “Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.”—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker

      “[A] deft, shape-shifting debut. . . . Matthews surveys the possible responses to what seems ineluctable, offering a work of intrepid imagination, inquiry, and strength.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

      “There’s manic, witty energy throughout and delight in the play of form and language.”—Library Journal

      Winner of a 2016 Rona Jaffee Foundation Writer’s Award

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