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
Join Atsuro Riley, incredible Bay Area poet at the famed Hotel Utah Saloon for an evening of live poetry
Atsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Bookworm Top 10 Book of the Year.
His first book Romey’s Order was the winner of the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, and a Lannan Literary Award.
Riley will be join by Patrick Phillips and Francesa Bell. For more information, click here.
The Hotel Utah Saloon
500 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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