American Radiance |
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| Author:
| Muradyan, Luisa |
| Series title: | The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4962-0775-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry,
American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author's experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn't try to provide an answer. Instead, the poems in
American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language,...
More DescriptionWinner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author's experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991.
What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn't try to provide an answer. Instead, the poems in American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language, and Prince's outstretched hand. Colliding with the grand figures of late '80s and early '90s pop culture, Muradyan's imagination pushes the reader forward, confronting the painful loss of identity that assimilation brings.