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Dangerous Goods
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571314574
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Jan 7 2014
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award, Minnesota Book Award
WINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD
From the poet whose stunning debut was praised as transcendent by Kevin Young and steadily confident by Carl Phillips, Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker throughout North America and abroad, illuminating the ways in which home and place may inhabit one another comfortably or uncomfortably--or both, simultaneously.
From the Bahamas, London, and Cairo to Bemidji, Minnesota, and Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill interweaves the contemporary with the historical, and explores with urgency the relationships among travel, migration, alienation, and home. Here, playful postcard poems addressed to Nostalgia and My Third Crush Today sit alongside powerful reflections on the immigration of African Americans to Liberia during and after the era of slavery. Such range and formal innovation make Hill's second collection both rare and exhilarating. Part shadowbox, part migration map, part travelogue-in-verse, Dangerous Goods is poignant, elegant, and deeply moving.
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