Duende Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2020) First published a decade ago

First published a decade ago

and myths about everything from vampires to werewolves to immortality

For the rest of his life

Rapid Review Pathology

the cost it exacts on us

Duende Sid Fleischman Humor Award (2020) First published a decade agoEvery poem is the story of itself. Pure conflict. Its own undoing. Breeze of dreams, then certain death. from "History" Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico Garca Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history