Throwing the Crown
Jacob Saenz · 2018
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About the book
Winner of the prestigious Honickman First Book Award from the American Poetry Review, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo, Throwing the Crown describes a boyhood on the edge. Set in a Chicago neighborhood dominated by gang life, Saenz sets the sweetness and vulnerability of youth against the cold reality of a gun pressed against a forehead. Full of accelerative sound--tight rhymes and short, percussive lines--these poems follow a fast-paced trajectory from danger to survival, pausing to acknowledge the beauty and humor in the details along the way.
Book details
- Year
- 2018
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- American Poetry Review, The
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 80
- ISBN
- 9780983300878
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