Cortney Lamar Charleston

Doppelgangbanger (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cortney Lamar Charleston is widely recognized and lauded as a poet, and this second collection comes highly anticipated.

Charleston's poems have appeared in a range of publications, including POETRY, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Granta and The Nation.

A Pushcart Prize-winning poet, Charleston has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

His debut full-length poetry collection, Telepathologies, was selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.

Charleston is currently poetry editor at The Rumpus, and is a tremendous advocate for contemporary poetry, including through social media (@bardsbesidebars).

Doppelgangbanger is part of the BreakBeat Poets series, a dynamic and growing series that includes José Olivarez's PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist Citizen Illegal, Camonghne Felix's National Book Award long listed Build Yourself A Boat, Kevin Coval's A People's History of Chicago, and many others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642594270
• Artikelnr.: 60773612

Autorenporträt

Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.