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Product details
- ISBN 9781324020738
- Weight: 159g
- Dimensions: 168 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2024
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In her third book, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, when past and future blur in the equidistance. Balancing formal innovation with deeply personal reflection, Midwood subtly but impiously explores love and sex and marriage and motherhood in plain, urgent language. Written for the most part early every morning over the course of a year, in all its changing seasons, Midwood includes a series of poems looking at and talking to trees; Prikryl’s careful attention to the ordinary world outside the window forms an alternative measure of time that leafs and ramifies. With their rapid shifts of scale and unusual directness, these poems find a new language for confronting our moment.
Jana Prikryl is the author of three previous collections, The After Party, No Matter, and Midwood. Born in the Czech Republic, her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Fondation Jan Michalski. Prikryl lives in Brooklyn and is the executive editor at the New York Review of Books.
