Swimming Swimmers Swimming

Swimming Swimmers Swimming

By Percival Everett
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Publication Date: 1st April 2011

These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic... Read More
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These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic... Read More
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These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic and at once an acceptance of its limits. These poems are landscapes, the meaning altering with the movement of clouds, with the changing light. Irony sometimes is the way we can be earnest.
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  • Price: $17.95
  • Pages: 72
  • Carton Quantity: 94
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Imprint: Red Hen Press
  • Publication Date: 1st April 2011
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • ISBN: 9781597094788
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    POETRY / General
Author Bio
PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novels include National Book Award winner James, Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. His most recent poetry collections include Sonnets for a Missing Key, The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson (winner of the 2020 IPPY Award in Most Original Concept) and Trout’s Lie. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.
These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic and at once an acceptance of its limits. These poems are landscapes, the meaning altering with the movement of clouds, with the changing light. Irony sometimes is the way we can be earnest.
  • Price: $17.95
  • Pages: 72
  • Carton Quantity: 94
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Imprint: Red Hen Press
  • Publication Date: 1st April 2011
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • ISBN: 9781597094788
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    POETRY / General
PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novels include National Book Award winner James, Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. His most recent poetry collections include Sonnets for a Missing Key, The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson (winner of the 2020 IPPY Award in Most Original Concept) and Trout’s Lie. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.