Winner, 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry | Named an Anchorage Daily News Favorite Book of 2024 | Longlist, 2024 Julie Suk Award
Landscape and language drive the poems in Absent Here, which explore loss, community, the changing environment, and whiteness of skin and scenery against the backdrop of the Alaskan North Slope of the author's youth. More than mere background, the land and water become characters in their own right, guiding syntactic forms and flowing reflections. Bret Shepard merges cultural experiences with meditative moments, ensuring that the voices and stories of this community are not lost to time, as so much has been already.
| ISBN: | 9780822967286 |
| Publication date: | 8th October 2024 |
| Author: | Bret Shepard |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world Narrative theme: Sense of place The Earth: natural history: general interest |
Winner, 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry | Named an Anchorage Daily News Favorite Book of 2024 | Longlist, 2024 Julie Suk AwardLandscape and language drive the poems in Absent Here, which explore loss, community, the changing environment, and whiteness of skin and scenery against the backdrop of the Alaskan North Slope of the author's youth. More than mere background, the land and water become characters in their own right, guiding syntactic forms and flowing reflections.
Absent Here features in the following genres: Poetry, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world, Narrative theme: Sense of place, The Earth: natural history: general interest
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Absent Here was written by Bret Shepard and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Absent Here has 80 pages
Yes it is part of Pitt Poetry Series series
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