A Daily Dose of Art: Scorched Earth by Tiana Clark
Tiana Clark’s book Scorched Earth is a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, so I decided to carry it around with me today and re-read it in between the work and writing and other things I needed to do today.
You should definitely buy this book of poems and read it.
And here are all of the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards
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"A formally kaleidoscopic work that oscillates between history, family, friendship, love, and the vexed precarity of modern life, Scorched Earth both challenges and soothes at once. But what I love most about these poems, and in Tiana's poems at large, is the way they name and hold the archive, the barbed histories, the loved ones and the nemeses in our world, with such intelligent tenderness. Here, the ache of lived experience is recast, as it is in our most indelible poems, as sites of wonder and luminosity, where our wounds are—thank god—not merely subjects, but methods."
—Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Thank God for poems. Thank God for these poems.
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