Results for "Pelizzon, V. Penelope"

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye maps the cultural legacies we cherish against those we reject. Playful and wrenching by turns, with lines inflected by the spoken music of their Arabic, Oshiwambo, Xhosa, and Italian contexts, these... Read More about A Gaze Hound That Hunteth By the Eye: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

In choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: “With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life—and she sees it for what it is. Her vision is then both passionate and ... Read More about Nostos (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize)

In choosing the winning manuscript for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, judge Andrew Hudgins remarked: “With immense poetic verve, Pelizzon finds flamboyance in places where it has been forgotten and brings it back to vivid life—and she sees it for what it is. Her vision is then both passionate and ... Read More about Nostos: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize)

From the coal country of Western Pennsylvania, to Camorra-ridden Naples, to the streets of Damascus before the outbreak of civil war, the lyric poems in V. Penelope Pelizzon's Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time (a finalist for the eighth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize) chart the complexitie... Read More about Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time