Kingdom

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. "These poems are beautifully adept at both recognizing the traces of history upon people and places, and painting a portrait of the world of the present that etches any number of things a forest of oaks and poplars, strangers in a market, or children playing ball in a village viscerally and indelibly in the reader's mind. But what captivates me most is the powerful subjectivity that characterizes these poems, the speaker's urge to be imprinted by the world, to be claimed by it and changed. Reading Myronn Hardy's KINGDOM, I feel myself in the presence of a formidable mind and a heart that is emphatically alive." Tracy K. Smith" Contributor Bio:  Hardy, Myronn Myronn Hardy is the author of three previous books of poems: APPROACHING THE CENTER, winner of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, THE HEADLESS SAINTS, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Catastrophic Bliss, winner of the Griot-Stadler Prize for Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Anneberg Foundation, Djerassi, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sacatar Foundation, and Fundacion Valparaiso. He divides his time between Morocco and New York City.