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Highlights
- From the winner of The Mina Shaughenessy Prize, The Lillian Fairchild Award, Designated Langston Hughes Poet/Scholar, and Pulitzer Prize Nominee, "The Reckoning" is a collection of work from across the career of poet Ross Talarico
- Author(s): Ross Talarico
- 332 Pages
- Poetry, American
- Series Name: VIA Folios
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Book Synopsis
From the winner of The Mina Shaughenessy Prize, The Lillian Fairchild Award, Designated Langston Hughes Poet/Scholar, and Pulitzer Prize Nominee, "The Reckoning" is a collection of work from across the career of poet Ross Talarico
Review Quotes
Talarico's true-life narratives inevitably remind you of your own best, half-buried memories.
--Chicago Tribune
Ross Talarico is a truly gifted poet.
--James Wright
Some say Ross Talarico has done the impossible.
--Katie Couric, NBC's Today Show
In Ross Talarico's poems is distilled much of what has been best in poetry.
--Donald Justice
Ross Talarico has a rare talent: he captures the inner thoughts of 'ordinary' people and reveals their extraordinary visions.
--Studs Terkel
Talarico writes like a latter-day Wordsworth.
--H.L. Hix
Ross Talarico is in a class by himself.
--Popular Culture Review