Roze & Blud: A Poem

Winner, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

Winner, 2020-2021 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award

In this long poem--almost a novel-in-verse--Jayson Iwen examines the intimate thoughts and feelings of two would-be poets: Roze Mertha, a teenage girl growing up in a trailer park, and William Blud, a veteran navigating age and loneliness in an apartment he shares with an Afghan refugee. Deftly crafting distinct voices for these characters in the upper midwestern terrain they inhabit, Iwen explores the quiet heartbreak and tenderly treasured experiences of two apparently unremarkable people using poetry to understand a world that doesn't make much space for them.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 02/14/2020
ISBN: 9781682261323
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d