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Fast Animal

Tim Seibles

Finalist:National Book Award -Poetry (2012)
In this nimble, turbulent collection, one of America's foremost African American poets probes the skin between childhood and adulthood.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Etruscan Press
  • Publish Date: Feb 7th, 2012
  • Pages: 72
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.80in - 6.00in - 0.50in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9780983294429
  • Categories: American - African American & BlackSubjects & Themes - Diversity & MulticulturalSubjects & Themes - Political & Protest

About the Author

Tim Seibles is an American poet born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his BA from Southern Methodist University and his MFA from Vermont College. Currently he teaches English and creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia. He also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and at Cave Canem Foundation.

Seibles received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and was honored with the Open Voice Award.

His poems have been published in literary journals and anthologies such as The Kenyon Review and Ploughshares, and New American Poets in the 90's.

Praise for this book

"Tim Seibles chronicles his evolution from innocence to adulthood in Fast Animal...[E]ach experience is keenly observed and shapes his growing sense of identity and an exquisite awareness of the things all humans share."
--Elizabeth Lund, The Washington Post