The Waker's Corridor (Walt Whitman Award)

The Story

The Wakers Corridor is the winner of the 2008 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Housed in elaborate and varied formal architectures, the poems navigate the disorder and gaps left by the violence of loss, where all measures of timepsychological, personal, historical, numericalcollide and overlap in intensely lyrical verse. The result is a journey that winds through shifting lands and interiors, across theatrical stages and city streets, into voices and objects that emerge in sudden, vivid relief, and just as quickly disappear. By turns dreamlike and sternly rational, arcane and contemporary, intimate and dramatic, The Wakers Corridor is a book of blinding, austere and beautiful awakenings.