Heard-Hoard
Heard-Hoard
Recognized for his “wildly original” poetry and his “uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,” Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people.
At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an “inscritched” dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their “old appetites as chronic as tides.” From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring “time and time that yonder oak,” this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
Reviews
Table of Contents
CALL
SUNDER
SHED
STRIPLINGS
CHORUS: Petition
MOTH
CREEKTHROAT
DUET
CLARY
CHORUS: Lobe
STRANGER
CAW
CRAW
GOLDHOUND
CHORUS: Milk
ORIGIN
RHYTHM
CHORUS: Seed
ELEMENT
CHORUS: Knell
OAK
LADDER
CHORUS: Hankerer
THICKET
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Awards
Poetry Society of America: Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
Won
Northern California Independent Booksellers Association: Golden Poppy Book Award
Finalist
PEN America: PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection
Finalist
Author Events
Atsuro Riley, author of Heard-Hoard, will read as part of the University of South Carolina's Fall Literary Festival
For event information click here.
University of South Carolina
Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library
1322 Greene St
Columbia, SC 29208
Atsuro Riley, author of Heard-Hoard, will read as part of the University of Michigan Zell Writers’ Program
The Zell Visiting Writers Series, hosted by the Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, brings the best authors in contemporary fiction and poetry to Ann Arbor for readings that are free and open to the public.
For event information click here.
University of Michigan
3187 Angell Hall
435 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
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