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Totem : Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize - Gregory Pardlo

Totem

By: Gregory Pardlo

Paperback | 1 September 2007

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Poetry. African American Studies. TOTEM, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is the debut of a poet who has been listening for decades. In his youth, Bregory Pardlo heard stories of factory hours and picket lines from his father; in the bars, clubs, and on the radio he listens to jazz and blues, the rhythms, beats, and aspirations of which seep into his poems. A former Cave Canem fellow, Pardlo creates work that is deeply autobiographical, drifting between childhood and adult life. He speaks a language simultaneously urban and highbrow, seamlessly switching from art analysis to sneakers hung over the telephone lines. "Gregory Pardlo... wants to explore the druidic function of art, the works of jazz musicians, painters, poets, and others who live imaginatively, expand reality, and make imagination free"--Brenda Hillman, from the introduction. Gregory Pardlo teaches at Medgar Evers Vollege, The City University of New York, and lives in Brooklyn.

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