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ATSURO RILEY’S Heard-Hoard is a Finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award

ATSURO RILEY’S Heard-Hoard named as a Finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Award The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection is given annually to a poet whose distinguished collection of poetry represents a notable and accomplished literary presence.   The work will have expanded the scope of American poetry. https://pen.org/literary-awards/2022-pen-america-finalists➠➠  

Heard-Hoard Reviewed in WORLD LITERATURE TODAY! Julian Gewirtz writes: “In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come.”

NEW! Julian Gewirtz reviews Heard-Hoard in World Literature Today: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january/heard-hoard-atsuro-riley➠➠   “In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come.” ———————————————————————— “Heard-Hoard contains many examples of wicked desires and violent compulsions—from angry gangs of runaway children to a tormented former prisoner of […]

ATSURO RILEY’S Heard-Hoard as a Finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award

ATSURO RILEY’S Heard-Hoard named as a Finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Award The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection is given annually to a poet whose distinguished collection of poetry represents a notable and accomplished literary presence.   The work will have expanded the scope of American poetry. https://pen.org/literary-awards/2022-pen-america-finalists➠➠  

BOSTON GLOBE’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2021” : No one in American poetry has a voicebox quite like Atsuro Riley’s . . .

BOSTON GLOBE’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2021” : No one in American poetry has a voicebox quite like Atsuro Riley’s . . . in his second collection, Riley lends his inimitable instrument to boyhood acquaintances and communal complaints. https://apps.bostonglobe.com/arts/graphics/2021/12/best-of-2021-books/➠➠   “No one in American poetry has a voicebox quite like Atsuro Riley’s — trained by ear on a […]

BOOKWORM’S “TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2021” : The strongest new book of poetry this year . . . 

BOOKWORM’S “TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2021” : The strongest new book of poetry this year . . .  https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/best-books-2021-jeffers-ishiguro-spiegelman➠➠   “In what is to my mind the strongest new book of poetry this year, Atsuro Riley’s Heard-Hoard universalizes the traumas of childhood in the Carolina mountains. He restores the memories of what he heard–the heard-hoard–to […]

REVIEW! The Adroit Journal “This book is crucial to contemporary American poetry right now because it shows a lyric poet of unique formal gifts doing something we’d usually expect from a great novelist—exploring and fully rendering our striving to give shape and meaning to our lives together—all while maintaining the force and subtlety of his lyric gift.”

REVIEW! Peter Campion reviews Heard-Hoard in The Adroit Journal: https://theadroitjournal.org/2021/11/15/a-review-of-atsuro-rileys-heard-hoard/➠➠   “This book is crucial to contemporary American poetry right now because it shows a lyric poet of unique formal gifts doing something we’d usually expect from a great novelist—exploring and fully rendering our striving to give shape and meaning to our lives together—all while […]

REVIEW! Peter Campion reviews Heard-Hoard in The Adroit Journal

REVIEW! Peter Campion reviews Heard-Hoard in The Adroit Journal: https://theadroitjournal.org/2021/11/15/a-review-of-atsuro-rileys-heard-hoard/➠➠   “This book is crucial to contemporary American poetry right now because it shows a lyric poet of unique formal gifts doing something we’d usually expect from a great novelist—exploring and fully rendering our striving to give shape and meaning to our lives together—all while […]

Review in Publishers Weekly

NEW!  Review in Publishers Weekly ➠➠ “Haunting. . .Riley’s oeuvre breaks new lyric ground with its singular style. This rich, polyphonic collection will keep readers entranced.” The haunting second collection from Riley (Romey’s Order) inhabits qualities of both lyric and narrative, animated by “The old ever-voice (with the tear through it) intonating, rivering.” Drawing on a […]