Buxton Books is excited to host Poetry Foundation member Atsuro Riley! Riley will be featuring his newest collection, Heard-Hoard.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

“Winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, this new collection of verse from Atsuro Riley offers a vivid weavework rendering and remembering an American place and its people. Recognized for his ‘wildly original’ poetry and his ‘uncanny and unparalleled ability to blend lyric and narrative,’ Atsuro Riley deepens here his uncommon mastery and tang. In Heard-Hoard, Riley has “razor-exacted” and “raw-wired” an absorbing new sequence of poems, a vivid weavework rendering an American place and its people. At once an album of tales, a portrait gallery, and a soundscape; an ‘inscritched’ dirt-mural and hymnbook, Heard-Hoard encompasses a chorus of voices shot through with (mostly human) histories and mysteries, their ‘old appetites as chronic as tides.’ From the crackling story-man calling us together in the primal circle to Tammy figuring ‘time and time that yonder oak,’ this collection is a profound evocation of lives and loss and lore.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Atsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press), which has been shortlisted for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, named a Boston Globe ‘Best Book of 2021,’ listed among the ‘Top 10 Books of the Year’ by Bookworm, and awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola prize. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco.

This is a free, in-store event!