"Robyn Schiff Wins 2024 Four Quartets Prize"
Robyn Schiff won for her collection Information Desk: An Epic, about which the judges wrote, "Roaming the halls of the museum, Schiff is attuned to the trespasses that attend to power, collecting, and curating, and the abuses and injustices of capitalism." The judges also selected Dong Li's The Orange Tree and Paisley Rekdal's West: A Translation as finalists. The prize is awarded to a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Teare on Taylor Johnson’s Inheritance
"Maybe you already know inheritance is vexed by paradox. Boon or burden, boon and burden? Each of us enters Johnson’s book through that singular, seemingly never settled and always unsettling noun, holding a small flat object labeled Inheritance. A thing made and possessed by another, and now—is it really yours? A thing given, but was it freely chosen? 'Extraordinary limitation,' Johnson writes, 'playing freedom.'" |
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