Overview
Winner, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. In a series of persona poems, Jayson Iwen examines the intimate thoughts and feelings of Americans whose lives have been predominantly ignored by contemporary mainstream culture, revealing the everyday heartbreak and beauty experienced by people living at the periphery of the nation's consciousness. Roze and Blud was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Green Rose Prize, as well as a semi-finalist for the Wheeler Prize and the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes.
Full Product Details
Author: Jayson Iwen
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Imprint: University of Arkansas Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.170kg
ISBN: 9781682261323
ISBN 10: 1682261328
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 02 March 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The poems in Jayson Iwen's Roze & Blud so clearly capture life in the Twin Ports - the Horns in the Harbor, snowblowers at dawn, the blue haze of football Sundays in the lives of the working poor - that the characters within them seem to be manifestations of the place itself. Roze Mertha and William Blud rise up, poem by poem, remarkable as people and the perfect vessels to deliver Iwen's profound philosophies. The great discoveries here feel effortless in the presence of these two, Roze and William, two of the Earth's / many selves, rushing forward into life. - Ryan Vine, author of To Keep Him Hidden and Distant Engines
"The poems in Jayson Iwen's Roze & Blud so clearly capture life in the Twin Ports - the ""Horns in the Harbor,"" snowblowers at dawn, the ""blue haze"" of football Sundays in the lives of the working poor - that the characters within them seem to be manifestations of the place itself. Roze Mertha and William Blud rise up, poem by poem, remarkable as people and the perfect vessels to deliver Iwen's profound philosophies. The great discoveries here feel effortless in the presence of these two, Roze and William, two of the ""Earth's / many selves, rushing forward into life."" - Ryan Vine, author of To Keep Him Hidden and Distant Engines"
Author Information
Jayson Iwen is the author of Six Trips in Two Directions, A Momentary Jokebook, and Gnarly Wounds, and he is the cotranslator of Lighthouse for the Drowning. He won the Emergency Press International Book Contest and CSU Poetry Center's Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Contest. He teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
