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The After Party by Jana Prikryl

A truly moving book. --John Ashbery

Jana Prikryl's The After Party journeys across borders and eras, from cold war Central Europe to present-day New York City, from ancient Rome to New World suburbs, constantly testing the lingua francas we negotiate to know ourselves. These poems disclose the tensions in our inherited identities and showcase Prikryl's ambitious experimentation with style.

Thirty Thousand Islands, the second half of the collection, presents some forty linked poems that incorporate numerous voices. Rooted in one place that fragments into many places--the remote shores of Lake Huron in Canada, a region with no natural resources aside from its beauty--these poems are an elegy that speaks beyond grief.

Penetrating, vital, and visionary, The After Party marks the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.
Jana Prikryl's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books, where she is a senior editor. She lives in New York.
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ISBN 13 9781101906231
ISBN 10 1101906235
Title The After Party
Author Jana Prikryl
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2016-06-21
Number of pages 112
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.