{"product_id":"hawk-parable-poems-paperback","title":"Hawk Parable: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTyler Mills\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...Mills proves that Faulkner underestimated a poet's ability to manage enormous shifts of scale...Haunted by the unverified possibility of her fighter-pilot grandfather's 'involvement in the Nagasaki mission, ' Mills scans skies for contrails, scrutinizes negatives, reads survivors' accounts, and sifts through white sands...Mills has written a book for the long nuclear century.\" - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/em\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a family mystery and engages with the limits of historical knowledge--particularly of the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped at the end of the Second World War and the repercussions of atomic tests the U.S. conducted throughout the 20th century. These poems explore a space between environmental crisis and a crisis of conscience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a lyric collection, \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e begins as a meditation on the author's grandfather's possible involvement in the Nagasaki mission and moves through poems that engage with the legacy of nuclear testing on our global environment. At times, \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e borrows language from declassified nuclear test films, survivor accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, scientific studies of bird migrations through the Nevada Test Site, and the author's grandfather's letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book enacts what it means to encounter fragments--of historical records, family stories, and survivor accounts--through exploring a variety of forms. \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e seeks what it means to be human in the spaces between tragedy and beauty, loss and life, in the relationships between the lyric speaker, history, and personal memory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTyler Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two books of poems, \u003cem\u003eHawk Parable\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2017 Akron Poetry Prize) and \u003cem\u003eTongue Lyre\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award). Her poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and her essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e. The recipient of residencies from Yaddo, Ragdale, and the Vermont Studio Center, and scholarships\/fellowships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee, the Chicago native is an assistant professor at New Mexico Highlands University, editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eThe Account\u003c\/em\u003e, and a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736231907391,"sku":"9781629221052","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/29ffff434442bcb98bc78cef068b8619.webp?v=1765146086","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/hawk-parable-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}