Flight - Sunken Garden Poetry Prize

Flight gives testament to the struggle of skin color in contemporary America. Utilizing both innovation and tradition, Chaun Ballard-s poems give voice to the silenced, proof to the disenfranchised, and life to the gone. -The poems in Flight unspool a rich and charmed history of survival into songs that celebrate the miracle of endurance in a country defined by the peculiar phenomenon of race; many of the poems in this collection explore (or allude to) the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson with a brilliance that is underscored by the poet-s extraordinary sense of sound to etch a new reality in our ears.- -Major Jackson