The $130,000 prize is the world's largest prize for a single book of poetry written in or translated into English. It was also announced that St. John's poet Don McKay has won this year's $25K lifetime achievement award.translated from Spanish and written by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis.
"The book's enchanting variety of tones and subjects expresses a rounded human being engaged with our total experience, from the familial to the political, from bodily sensations to dream, vision, philosophic thought, and history, from hope to foreboding. A keynote is the sense of a person speaking with us plainly and yet from kinship with a light that bathes, and springs from, each thing.
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