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    612-822-4611

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Hold Like Owls

Hold Like Owls

Koets, Julia
Finney, Nikky

Paperback

Series: South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1611170842
ISBN13: 9781611170849
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Apr 20 2012
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

A collection of poems exploring memories and identity forged in the American South

Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koets. Full of imagery deeply embedded in memories of growing up in the American South, Koets explores what it means to hold--to carry memories--and what to hold onto and what to let go. Birds turn into paper, a voice fits inside a chestnut shell, and moths eat stars through a woolen sky as the collection evokes nuance within the ordinary, reframes childhood memory, and engages the themes of the night, sensuality, and desire. Whether questioning personal histories, language, sexual identity, or love, the collection honors the gentle corners of the night that allow for questioning and uncertainty to exist.

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