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Golden Ax (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143137139)
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Rio Cortez
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xLonglisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award "Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger "I've never read anything like it. Truly a sublime experience." --Jason Reynolds, author of Ain't Burned All the Bright
A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors--some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction--Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.
Author: Rio Cortez
ISBN-10: 0143137131
ISBN-13: 9780143137139
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2022
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.30d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2022
Shelf Awareness 09/02/2022
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award "Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger "I've never read anything like it. Truly a sublime experience." --Jason Reynolds, author of Ain't Burned All the Bright
A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures. In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors--some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction--Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.
Author: Rio Cortez
ISBN-10: 0143137131
ISBN-13: 9780143137139
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2022
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.30d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2022
Shelf Awareness 09/02/2022
By Rio Cortez
xBorn and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Rio Cortez is the New York Times bestselling author of The ABCs of Black History (Workman, 2020) and I Have Learned to Define a Field As a Space Between Mountains, winner of the 2015 Toi Dericotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Her honors include a Poets & Writers Amy Award, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, Canto Mundo, The Jerome Foundation, and Poet's House. Rio holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University.
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