Diane Seuss won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poems titled frank: sonnets. All the poems are fourteen lines but of varying lengths (one poem carries each line over to the next page). The poems read like prose poems, phrases sometime separated by commas and sometimes not. Sometimes the poems narrate a story, sometimes they seem like stream of consciousness that circles back to someplace near the starting point. Many of the poems are autobiographical. This is a remarkable volume praised by the most highly-regarded poets. There’s a reason it won the Pulitzer. Here’s what Harvard Review says:
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