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Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

Inspired by Matsuo Basho's writings and teachings on poetics and haiku, the interrelated lyric poems in Sky of Wu investigate work and marriage, the question of becoming a parent while watching a parent age into dementia, and the realities of wrestling with inequality, pollution, and habitat loss while navigating everyday life in Oakland, California. Simultaneously, they converse with Chinese poets from the eighth century and Japanese writers from the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. From these disparate sources, Halebsky weaves together small moments, stolen phrases, and images of beauty, allowing them to reveal their own sly humor and unvarnished truth.

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Halebsky likes the unleashed energy of poetry, and in the poems gathered here, she delivers." - Billy Collins

Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged): Poems

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      Publisher University of Arkansas Press
      Published 30 March 2020
      ISBN-13 9781682261330
      978-1682261330
      ISBN-10 1682261336

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

      Inspired by Matsuo Basho's writings and teachings on poetics and haiku, the interrelated lyric poems in Sky of Wu investigate work and marriage, the question of becoming a parent while watching a parent age into dementia, and the realities of wrestling with inequality, pollution, and habitat loss while navigating everyday life in Oakland, California. Simultaneously, they converse with Chinese poets from the eighth century and Japanese writers from the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. From these disparate sources, Halebsky weaves together small moments, stolen phrases, and images of beauty, allowing them to reveal their own sly humor and unvarnished truth.

      Trade Review
      Halebsky likes the unleashed energy of poetry, and in the poems gathered here, she delivers." - Billy Collins

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