| Unmanly Grief: Poems Contributor(s): Williard, Jess (Author) |
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ISBN: 1682260933 ISBN-13: 9781682260937 Publisher: University of Arkansas Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2018037837 |
| Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 50 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Finalist, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize "Poems that lead us to striking insights and strange destinations." The men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard's Unmanly Grief perform their masculinity in a variety of ways: boxing, theater, brotherhood, labor, and familial and romantic love. Marked by a sharp nostalgia, Williard's poems move from Wisconsin to New York City and back, tracing the geographic movement of the speaker and his family: a teenage sister who disappears and returns, changed irrevocably; an older brother dismantled in adulthood; an ever-sacrificing father. Woven through the musculature of this varied and exciting collection, music appears as readily in dexterous formal verse as in lean, scrappy storytelling. What results is a crooning celebration of struggle and tenderness in this world, "where to be small and furious is enough." Finalist, 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award from the Binghamton Center for Writers |