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South Carolina Poetry Book Prize
Keep and Give Away
Keep and Give Away was selected by Terrance Hayes as the inaugural winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative.
In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss, relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the poems of Keep and Give Away move along the rifts between the past and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world, where birds are "yeses quickening the air" and the sky can "lap you up, and up." In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection, contraries, and―most of all―love.
In her first full-length collection, Susan Meyers guides us through her examination of life's ordinary moments and the seemingly ordinary images that abide in them to reveal the extraordinary. From minutia to marriage, crumbs to crows, nothing is too commonplace to escape her attention as she traverses terrains of childhood, loss, relationships, and death. Mostly lyrical and often elegiac, the poems of Keep and Give Away move along the rifts between the past and present, the lived and desired. The dominant emotions of the verses are deepened by observations rooted in our natural world, where birds are "yeses quickening the air" and the sky can "lap you up, and up." In the book's final section, marriage poems turn to fishing and gardening for their truths, contemplations that recognize the realities of a world governed by luck, imperfection, contraries, and―most of all―love.
- GenresPoetry
104 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2006
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Susan Meyers
53 books33 followersSusan Meyers is the author of the poetry collection Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006), selected by Terrance Hayes for the SC Poetry Book Prize. It also won the 2007 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for Poetry and the NC Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell Book Award."
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June 28, 2007
Susan Meyers has won the SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) award for 2007 for her book of poetry, Keep and Give Away from USC Press and sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initative.
Congratulations to the wonderful Susan Meyers. I can think of no poet who deserves this more. Not only is she a gifted poet, but also a truly dear person. She works tirelessly and contributes so much to so many people. And if you haven't read the book, you really should!! (Amazon)
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In addition, Susan's book has won the North Carolina Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell prize for the best book of poetry by a NC poet in 2006.
Congratulations to the wonderful Susan Meyers. I can think of no poet who deserves this more. Not only is she a gifted poet, but also a truly dear person. She works tirelessly and contributes so much to so many people. And if you haven't read the book, you really should!! (Amazon)
News Flash!
In addition, Susan's book has won the North Carolina Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell prize for the best book of poetry by a NC poet in 2006.
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