Robin Walter’s ‘Little Mercy’ receives poetry academy’s First E book Award
NEW YORK — Robin Walter’s “Little Mercy,” a debut assortment of verse that celebrates the pure world, has received the 2024 Academy of American Poets’ First E book Award.
Walter will obtain $5,000 and a six-week residency in Umbria, Italy. Her e-book might be revealed subsequent yr by Graywolf Press, an impartial writer whose authors have included Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Alexander and former U.S. poet laureate Tracy Ok. Smith. The academy itself plans to buy 1000’s of copies and distribute them to members.
Walter’s e-book was chosen by fellow poet Victoria Chang, who in an announcement Wednesday referred to as her work “melodious and smart.”
“The attractive and meditative poems in ‘Little Mercy’ are painterly, showcasing a perceptive speaker with a eager eye,” Chang wrote. “These poems quietly and gently ask us to take a look at all of the pure magnificence and cruelty (however largely magnificence) we face every day, each minute, each second of our unusual time on this earth.”
The academy established the primary e-book award in 1975, with earlier winners together with Jenny Xie, Alberto Rios and Sally Van Doren.
