Griffin Poetry Prize ぐりふぃんししょう
第18回(2018年)
受賞者
2名This poetry collection reconnects the body, desire, pain, and colonial memory of a queer Indigenous man through a voice that is both prayerful and critically alert. It opens personal wounds onto the structures of the world and offers love and sex as forms of resistance toward the future.
From personal wounds, the poems open a world that reconsiders colonialism and the possibilities of love.
Susan Howe's experimental collection brings together Paul Thek's art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, early American writings, and personal memory. Prose, fragments, and collage intersect as the book explores the depths of memory and archival material.
From gaps in documents and personal memory, histories that never fully become voice begin to surface.