Poet M. NourbeSe Philip Honored
The Toronto writer has received the $50,000 PEN/Nabokov Award for International Literature. PEN America said of her work, "M. NourbeSe Philip's writing has, for four decades, merged vital formal experimentation and considerations of race, gender, colonialism and African diasporic identity."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jay Besemer on Tristan Tzara's “Anecdote"
"Already focusing on short, intense poems in my own writing, the eleven-line near-sonnet of 'Anecdote' made me feel that I had a path ahead of me ('from one halt to the next') and reassured me that I was not alone in my experiences of violent alienation and the sense of being wrong, badly-suited for what the whole world seemed to expect of me. In both form and content, 'Anecdote' resonated with my own needs, perspective and experiences, both interior and as a human animal in the world." |
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