Digest (poetry collection)
Poetry collection by Gregory Pardlo
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Digest is a 2014 poetry collection by Gregory Pardlo published by Four Way Books. Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a nominee for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 46th NAACP Image Award.[1][2] Pardlo started work on the collection in 2004 "as an effort to mesh academic with creative writing."[3]
Official Cover Design for Digest | |
| Author | Gregory Pardlo |
|---|---|
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Four Way Books |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | United States of America |
| ISBN | 978-1-935536-50-5 |
Description and overview
Digest can be described as a mix of free verse and prose poems.[4]
Pardlo described the "running theme of the book" as "to take . . . things and to digest them and make them my own."[5] This thematic line has also been described as a kind of identity formation, drawing on both national and personal history to define the limits of the collection's shared speaker.[6]