In Realuyo’s landscape of poetry, the ruins and the ruined of the Philippines gather to speak of “memories that arises from simple truths,” and prove that what the punished body cannot endure, the soul will ultimately witness, illuminate, and redeem.
The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. The Gods We Worship Live Next Door is the 2005 prizewinning volume selected by this year's judge, Grace Schulman, distinguished professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.
In Realuyo’s landscape of poetry, the ruins and the ruined of the Philippines gather to speak of “memories that arises from simple truths,” and prove that what the punished body cannot endure, the soul will ultimately witness, illuminate, and redeem.
The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. The Gods We Worship Live Next Door is the 2005 prizewinning volume selected by this year's judge, Grace Schulman, distinguished professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.