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Absent Here: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

Bret Shepard

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Publication Date: October 8th, 2024

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN:

9780822967286

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Description

Winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the 2023 AWP Award Series.

About the Author

Bret Shepard grew up in villages on the North Slope of Alaska. He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Saint Mary’s College, where he completed his MFA, and the University of Nebraska, where he completed his PhD. He is the author of Place Where Presence Was, winner of the Moon City Press Book Award, as well as two chapbooks, including The Territorial, which won the Midwest Chapbook Award from the Laurel Review. He currently lives outside of Philadelphia and teaches at Goldey-Beacom College.

Praise for Absent Here: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)

“Visual, sensual, and clear, this collection maps a distinctly Alaskan space. The relationships, realities, land, sky, creatures, waters—ice—of the Arctic breathe in these poems like characters. There’s a tricky math at work: each poem adds to or subtracts from what a lone human can know. This is life as some gorgeous zero-sum game. These poems, even if defined by howling absence, encourage us to mark the present and live, simply live, in it.”

—Heidi Erdrich, Donald Hall Prize for Poetry judge