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Dark poems struggling to reconcile a haunting loss and troubled present

Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving through the Country befor…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534360/Seeking
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to led to a desire to respond. The best artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534359/The-Complete-Poems-of-James-Dickey
The Complete Poems of James Dickey is an authoritative edition of all 331 poems published by one of America's most distinguished poets, collected in one volume for the first time. Dickey's mos…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534344/Seven-Strong
A collaboration between the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Press, the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize is a celebration of accomplished and emerging poet…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534327/Ota-Benga-under-My-Mothers-Roof
In Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof, Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) uses poignant and personal verse to trace the ill-fated life of the Congolese pygmy who was famously exhibited in the Bronx…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534322/Keep-and-Give-Away
Poems of discovery and loss pull the magical from the mundane

Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534303/Hold-Like-Owls
Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koe…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534281/Among-the-Nightmare-Fighters
In the first comprehensive study of the American male poets of World War II, Diederik Oostdijk gives voice to the literary men still considered to be a part of the Silent Generation. Focusing…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534292/Excavations
Selected by Rigoberto Gonzales as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Excavations: A City Cycle is the first collection of poetry from Jennifer R. Pournelle. Set in different c…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/1534377/Poems
William Gilmore Simms collected a large swath of his previously published poetry into a single, two-volume collection. Poems thus contains a broad selection of the author's verse works, both t…]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 08:25:16 -0700