frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss was the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [1] published by Graywolf Press. The Pulitzer committee described frank: sonnets as "a virtuosic collection that inventively expands the sonnet form to confront the messy contradictions of contemporary America, including the beauty and the difficulty of working-class life in the Rust Belt." [2]
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