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02135aam a22003258i 4500 001 ABDD9D7E25A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211005010046 008 201222t20212021utu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2020057466 020 $a 1647690404 020 $a 9781647690403 035 $a (OCoLC)1227272246 040 $a CoU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3607 U27 W47 2021 100 1 $a Gucciardi, Benjamin, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a West Portal / $c Benjamin Gucciardi. 263 $a 2111 264 1 $a Salt Lake City : $b The University of Utah Press, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 74 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry 520 $a "West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles-the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams's assertion that "the local is the only thing that is universal," West Portal investigates the Bay Area's urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet's sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful, observant, elegiac, pained, dreamlike, philosophical, and compassionate, the book asks: What do we consider holy? What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a West Portal (San Francisco, Calif.) $v Poetry. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gucciardi, Benjamin, 1984- $t West portal $d Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2021 $z 9781647690410 $w (DLC) 2020057467 830 0 $a Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20211102014042.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ABDD9D7E25A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search