Craig Santos Perez Wins 2023 National Book Award for Poetry
"Presenting the Award for Poetry was poet, editor, and jury chair Heid E. Erdrich (sister to Louise), who announced from unincorporated territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez (Omnidawn) as the winner. 'When I started writing, my mission was to inspire the next generation of Pacific Islanders,' said Perez, who hails from Guam, in his acceptance speech."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Nica Giromini on Language as Form
"What drew me to terza rima in particular is the tension, or rather disagreement, manufactured by its braided structure of rhymes. Because each stanza is interconnected with both the following and the former, the borders of the unit of the stanza start to fray. And a productive tension—one parallel to that of the competing units of sense of the line and the sentence—emerges between the units of sense of the stanza and of the poem (across stanzas)." |
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