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The American Poetry Review /Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry 2006 Winner
David Roderick
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In this collection, David Roderick re-imagines the past in order to explore the burdens of our historical inheritance: vanished Native American tribes, the seeds of American culture, and our physical and psychological encroachment upon the natural landscape. Whether he is writing about historical legacy or his own back yard, Roderick has arrived at a voice of distinct solitariness and precise observation.
"David Roderick's poems are exquisitely made with language that is rich and precise. He convinces us that we are all pilgrims committing our acts of courage as well as our little crimes. This book is immensely rewarding."
--James Tate
David Roderick has published poems in several journals, including The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He earned an M.F.A. in poetry at the University of Massachusetts and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. A native of Plymouth, Massachusetts, he is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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