Weapons Grade: Poems

by Terese Svoboda

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Terese Svoboda is the author of ten books of prose and poetry, most recently Black Glasses Like Clark Kent that won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her honors in poetry include the Iowa Poetry Prize and two prizes from the Poetry Society of America, the Lucille Medwick Award, and Cecil Hemley Award. She has also won an O. Henry Prize for the short story, the Bobst Prize for fiction, a Pushcart Prize for an essay, and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in translation. Her opera
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"This collection should be considered by anyone serious about contemporary poetry."
Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
Oct 21, 2009
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"Svoboda’s poems are as haunting as they are funny, as pleasurable as they are powerful." Publisher's Weeklly
Craig Teicher, Publisher's Weekly
Sep 21, 2009
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Recipient of a Guggenheim, Terese Svoboda is the author of seventeen books of prose, poetry, memoir, translation, and biography, including six books of fiction-most recently, Bohemian Girl.

Terese Svoboda is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.

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Canonical title
Weapons Grade: Poems
Original publication date
2009-09
People/Characters
Douglas MacArthur; Henry VIII, King of England
Important places
Tokyo, Japan; England, UK; USA (Midwest); Japan
Important events
Iraq War
Publisher's editor
Enid Shomer
Blurbers
Lux, Thomas; Seaton, Maureen; Knox, Caroline

Classifications

Genres
Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Music
DDC/MDS
811.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry20th Century1945-1999
LCC
PS3569 .V6 .W43Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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Languages
English
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Paper, Ebook
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