Jana Prikryl presents The Channel
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About the book:
In her T.S. Eliot shortlisted fourth collection, Jana Prikryl harnesses the power of King Lear to look back at her family story and see more clearly our own mad kings, our hunger for authority. Listening for Cordelia as a dissenter banished from home, Prikryl finds that outside her native tragedy the silent woman has more to say. The centuries and settings molt from the Bronze Age to Jacobean England to the Cold War to the digital now, as her voice pushes itself into evasive maneuvers, urgent digressions, bad jokes, worse puns, and desperate expressions of love, and she struggles to escape the roles written for her. What new language, what new reality—these poems ask—is available beyond the borders of any given role?
About the participants:
Jana Prikryl is the author of three previous collections, The After Party, No Matter, and Midwood. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born in the former Czechoslovakia, Prikryl lives in Brooklyn with her son and is the executive editor at The New York Review of Books.
Christine Smallwood is the author of The Life of the Mind and La Captive.
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