Hold Like Owls

by Julia Koets

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 Koets. Full of imagery deeply embedded in memories of growing up in the American South, Koets explores what it means to hold--to carry memories--and what to hold onto and what to let go. Birds turn into paper, a voice fits inside a chestnut shell, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611170842
• ISBN13: 9781611170849
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"