Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. Recognized for his -wildly original- poetry and his -uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,- Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang.-In Heard-Hoard, Riley has -razor-exacted- and -raw-wired- an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people.-At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an -inscritched- dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their -old appetites as chronic as tides.--From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring -time and time that yonder oak,- this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.
