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Parallax
Paperback
Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781682262689
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: Mar 14 2025
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.85 Depth: 8.35
Language: English
Finalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
Julia Kolchinsky's Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet's birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence, Kolchinsky struggles to process the war unfolding far away, on the same soil where so many of her ancestors perished during the Holocaust.
Anchored by a series of poems that look to the moon, this collection explores displaced perspectives and turns to the celestial to offer meditations on how elements formed in distant stars account for so much of our human DNA. In these poems, writes series editor Patricia Smith, Kolchinsky clutches at a feeling of home that is both unfamiliar and deeply treasured, longs for all that was left behind, struggles to come to terms with the rampant violence devastating a landscape that still, in so many encouraging and heartbreaking ways, belongs to her.
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