Tiana Clark
Dec 12, 2018
2 minutes
University of Pittsburgh Press (Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize)
I think about patience and its stupid song.
I can’t wait— Yes, I’m always looking back
at my dead.
—from “After Orpheus”
HOW IT BEGAN: Survival. The seed of this collection is about poetry as a means of persistence, Black persistence: the
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