{"product_id":"visiting-hours-at-the-color-line-9781571314604","title":"Visiting Hours at the Color Line","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I am incapable of succinctly praising this poet's immense talent.\" --TERRANCE HAYES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are segregated by a politicized, racially divided \"Color Line.\" But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American civilization? Where is the Color Line in the mind, in the body, between bodies, between human beings?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected for the National Poetry Series by Dan Beachy-Quick, Ed Pavlic's \u003cem\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line \u003c\/em\u003eattempts to complicate this black and white, straight-line feature of our collective imagination, and to map its nonlinear, deeply colored timbres and hues. From daring prose poems to powerful free verse, Pavlic's lines are musically infused, bearing tones of soul, R \u0026amp; B, and jazz. They link the influence of James Baldwin with a postmodern consciousness descended from Samuel Beckett, tracking the experiences of American characters through situations both mundane and momentous. The resulting poems are intense, ambitious, and psychological, making \u003cem\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line \u003c\/em\u003ea poetic tour de force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e has been awarded the Honickman First Book Prize and is a National Poetry Series award winner, in addition to receiving fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of four previous collections of poems including, \u003ci\u003eWinners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Athens, GA.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356894368018,"sku":"9781571314604","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_016e76ec-a0f3-4f1a-af86-b0f09a96bc01.jpg?v=1728314668","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/visiting-hours-at-the-color-line-9781571314604","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}