Second Nature

• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-15
• Mått: 177 x 228 x 12 mm
• Vikt: 276 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 93
• Förlag: BOA Editions, Limited
• Medarbetare: Matthew Shenoda
• ISBN: 9781960145529

• Poesi

Chaun Ballard is a doctoral student of poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of the chapbook Flight (Tupelo Press), which receivedthe 2018 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Ballard'spoems have appeared in The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine, Oxford Poetry, PoetryNorthwest, The Missouri Review, TheNew York Times, and otherliterary magazines. Ballard lives in Lincoln, NE.

“ChaunBallard’s compelling debut collection, Second Nature, weds formalengagement and innovation with explorations of American history as itintersects with African American lives. An interrogation of archives and what’spreserved there engenders voices of figures like Crispus Attucks. These poemsrooted in those lives—the poet’s family and community—take on broaderimplications when nonhuman beings like the weaver bird, the robin, and fireweedare brought into the conversations. These poems draw on the past for ourpresent and future. Ultimately these poems are, as one of Ballard’s poems putsit, 'stories' that should be 'ringing in the ear of each generation.'” —Sean Hill, author of DangerousGoods“What you hold in your hands is a collection of poemsthat braids together the unencumbered memories of family lineage and AfricanAmerican history. Chaun Ballard explores what it means to be shaped by others,to make a way in the world carrying the pieces of the imperfect men and womenwho brought us to this moment. Ballard’s poems speak to the idea of acontinuum, articulating the life of the poet on his own terms withoutforgetfulness or a simple investment in the fragmented lie of the individual.These are poems of community and history, of the collision of time, of what itmeans to live in ancestry and in the particulars of place.” —Matthew Shenoda, from the Foreword

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