| Author/Contributor(s): | Cancio-Bello, Marci Calabretta |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Date: | 10/12/2016 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Hour of the Ox received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Crystal Ann Williams, who called it "a timeless collection written by a poet of exceptional talent and grace, a voice as tough as it is tender." Cancio-Bello examines the multiplicity of distance, wanderlust, and grief at the intersection between filial and cultural responsibility. Desires are sloughed off, replaced by new ones, re-cultivated as mythos. These poems offer a complex and necessary new perspective on the elegiac immigrant song.