North American Stadiums | Chambers Grady | Pevná väzba

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Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, iNorth American Stadiumsi is an assured debut collection about grace--the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive. p You were supposed to find God here the signs said. In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage and history large and small--of a city, of a family, of a shirt--is unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement a field lit like the heart of the night, black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd. p A map bleached pale by time and weather, iNorth American Stadiumsi is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the plac

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