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IMAGINE A TOWN IBD

BARBARA NONE NONE SABOL / BARBARA SABOL
SHEILA-NA-GIG EDITIONS
02 / 2020
9781732940666
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Sinopsis

We are happy to congratulate Barbara Sabol of Akron, OH for winning Sheila-Na-Gig Editions&rsquo, Second Annual Full-Length Poetry Manuscript Prize for her work Imagine a Town. The poems in Imagine A Town reveal how a confederacy of places&mdash,a hometown, adopted city, a neighborhood&mdash,conspires to shape identity, especially when one&rsquo,s sense of self butts up against the values and expectations embraced by that place. These narratives convey how a girl&rsquo,s long view is foreshortened by smokestacks, slim resources, and the rough Alleghenies circling her blue-collar existence. Self-discovery also manifests through a reckoning of events outside the kitchen window, and in the wider world. Conversely, distance from the speaker&rsquo,s origins gently tightens the grasp of that place as she reconciles inevitable losses and regrets exacted by her departure. Memories of coming-of-age in a time of milkmen and trolley cars prompt a visitation to a hometown that&rsquo,s taken up residence in the poet&rsquo,s imagination as she journeys through place and time. Also infusing these poems is the tension of a constructed suburban world imposed on the natural world, such that the sight of a buck in a neighbor&rsquo,s yard startles a renewed connection with nature, and an awareness of deeper losses. The concept of home, a longing to belong, and the risks and rewards of carving an outsider existence lie at the beating heart of this collection.á