Ceiling of Sticks

by Shane Book

Book Overview

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Book's collection, Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics. It bears elegiac witness to the effects of global politics on individual lives. Book's poems carry us to Uganda, Ghana, Mali, Trinidad, and Canada's west coast; from a religious sacrifice in Tarahumara, Mexico, to Book's ailing grandfather's bedside. They bring an intimate vision of humanity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803215584
• ISBN13: 9780803215580
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"