Digest (poetry collection)

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Digest
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Author Gregory Pardlo
Genre Poetry
Publisher Four Way Books
Publication date
2014
Publication place United States of America
ISBN 978-1-935536-50-5

Digest is a 2014 poetry collection by Gregory Pardlo published by Four Way Books. Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a nominee for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 46th NAACP Image Award. [1] [2] Pardlo started work on the collection in 2004 "as an effort to mesh academic with creative writing." [3]

Contents

Description and overview

Digest can be described as a mix of free verse and prose poems. [4]

Pardlo described the "running theme of the book" as "to take . . . things and to digest them and make them my own." [5] This thematic line has also been described as a kind of identity formation, drawing on both national and personal history to define the limits of the collection's shared speaker. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Digest via The Pulitzer Prize" . Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Digest – Four Way Books". fourwaybooks.com. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  3. ↑ Writer, Sofiya Ballin, Inquirer Staff (28 April 2015). "Philly-born Gregory Pardlo talks about his Pulitzer for poetry". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 30 July 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Three best poetry books of May". Washington Post. 9 April 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
  5. ↑ Roché, Nicole (2016). "An Interview with Gregory Pardlo". CutBank (86): 74–85.
  6. ↑ "Digest – Four Way Books". fourwaybooks.com. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
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