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North American Stadiums
Paperback
Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571315359
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Jun 8 2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.
You were supposed to find God here / the signs said. In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small--of a city, of a family, of a shirt--is unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement: a field lit like the heart / of the night, black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd.
A map bleached / pale by time and weather, North American Stadiums is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the places we inhabit and how those places, in turn, shape us.
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