Golden Ax by Rio Cortez

Golden Ax

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Golden Ax by Rio Cortez

Penguin Books

Golden Ax

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Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award

"Outstanding . . . the poetry in these pages is intelligent, lyrical, as invested in the past as the present and future with witty nods to pop culture." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger

"I've never read anything like it. Truly a sublime experience." --Jason Reynolds, author of Ain't Burned All the Bright

A groundbreaking collection about Afropioneerism past and present from Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and New York Times bestselling author Rio Cortez

From a visionary writer praised for her captivating work on Black history and experience comes a poetry collection exploring personal, political, and artistic frontiers, journeying from her family's history as "Afropioneers" in the American West to shimmering glimpses of transcendent, liberated futures.

In poems that range from wry, tongue-in-cheek observations about contemporary life to more nuanced meditations on her ancestors--some of the earliest Black pioneers to settle in the western United States after Reconstruction--Golden Ax invites readers to re-imagine the West, Black womanhood, and the legacies that shape and sustain the pursuit of freedom.
Book Details
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780143137139
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
80
Authors:
Rio Cortez
Published Date:
2022-08-30
Language:
English
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About Rio Cortez

Golden Ax (Penguin Poets, 2022), Rio Cortez's debut collection, was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry and named a 2023 finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Cortez grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, holds an MFA from New York University, and has held fellowships from Cave Canem and CantoMundo. An earlier chapbook, I Have Learned to Define a Field as a Space Between Mountains (Jai Alai Books, 2015), won the Toi Dericotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Cortez is the New York Times–bestselling author of The ABCs of Black History (Workman, 2020) and lives in Harlem, working at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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