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Digest / Gregory Pardlo.

by Pardlo, Gregory.

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Four Way Books, [2014]

American poetry -- 21st century.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

American poetry -- Black authors.

9781935536505 (pbk.)

1935536508 (pbk.)

75 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Written by himself -- Marginalia. Preamble ; Problemata ; Problema 1 ; Problema 2 ; Problema 3 ; Problema 4 -- Attachment : Atlantic City pimp -- Corrective lenses : creative reading and (recon)textual/ization -- Four improvisations on Ursa Corrigedora -- Copyright -- Renaissance man -- Shades of green : envy and enmity in the American cultural imaginary -- Copenhagen, 1991 -- Ghosts in the machine : synergy and the dialogic system -- Palling around -- Raisin -- Philadelphia, negro -- The conatus improvisations. Heraclitus ; St. Augustine ; Boethius ; Aquinas ; Occam ; Gassendi -- ZoSo -- Alienation effects -- Black pampers -- Prom lighting with cummerbund -- Chalk dust on the air -- Bipolar -- For which it stands -- Pool table -- All God's chillun -- Wishing well -- The Clinamen improvisations. Deleuze & Guattari ; Cervantes ; Alfred North Whitehead ; Epicurus ; Kierkegaard.

"From Epicurus to Sam Cook, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a fathers eyes and through their own"--Provided by publisher.

Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Willingboro, New Jersey. He is an associate editor for the literary journal Callaloo and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. For a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, awarded to "Digest," by Gregory Pardlo. "Clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America, rich with thought, ideas and histories public and private."--From Pulitzer.org/citation/2015-Poetry/

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