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An anthology edited by acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis.
In 1997, Sarabande published Last Call, a poetry anthology that
became a formative text on the lived experiences of addiction. Now,
more than twenty-five years later, editors Kaveh Akbar and Paige
Lewis offer this companion volume for a new generation. Another
Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance showcases work from
poets like Joy Harjo, Afaa M. Weaver, Diane Seuss, Layli Long
Soldier, Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, Ada Limón, and Ocean Vuong,
as well as many new and powerful voices. Contributors: Samuel Ace,
Chase Berggrun, Sherwin Bitsui, Sophie Cabot Black, Jericho Brown,
Anthony Ceballos, Marianne Chan, Jos Charles, Brendan Constantine,
Cynthia Cruz, Steven Espada Dawson, Megan Denton Ray, Martín
Espada, Megan Fernandes, Sarah Gorham, Joy Harjo, Mary Karr, Sophie
Klahr, Michael Klein, Dana Levin, Ada Limón, Zach Linge, Layli
Long Soldier, Sharon Olds, Airea Dee Matthews, Joshua Mehigan,
Tomás Q. Morín, Erin Noehrem, Joy Priest, Dana Roeser, sam sax,
Diane Seuss, Natalie Shapero, Katie Jean Shinkle, Jeffrey Skinner,
Bernardo Wade, Afaa M. Weaver, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Phillip B.
Williams, Ocean Vuong
sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the
Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to
the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of
2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on
death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and
personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of
a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says
"bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts
at every turn. Exuberant, wild, tightly knotted mesmerisms of
discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred
toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig
hard and lift luminously." In this phenomenal second collection of
poems, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation
of the bridges we cross, the bridges we burn, and bridges we must
leap from.
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Pig - Poems
Sam Sax
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From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James
Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses
the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and
power. This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates
the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig--farm animal,
men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness,
global food systems, religion/Judaism and law--to reimagine various
chaotic histories of the body, faith, ecology, desire, hygiene, and
power. Sam Sax draws on autobiography and history to create poems
that explore topics ranging from drag queens and Miss Piggy to pig
farming and hog lagoons. Collectively, these poems, borne of Sax's
obsession, offer a varied picture of what it means to be a human
being. Delivered in a variety of forms, infused with humor, grace,
sadness, and anger, Pig is a wholly unique collection from a
virtuosic and original poet.
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