I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always
Award stunner Last poetry book, SHO, won the Griffin and Minnesota Book awards and was a finalist for PEN, the Kingsley Tufts, and the National Book Award. Last book OPTIC SUBWOOF won the CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism.
Genre-breaking Douglas has seemingly mastered many modes of writing, including critical nonfiction, poetry, performance, scholarly writing, libretti (most recently THE COMET, which was covered by the New York Times and premiered in LA). So it shouldn't be any surprise that with this book Douglas shows us his mastery as a visual poet.
Wide appeal This book will appeal to poetry (loving) bookstores, art bookstores, and museum bookstores. Because of the striking visual appeal of Douglas's work, this book will travel beyond literary circles into scholarly, art, and activist spaces.
Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays to libretti. His most recent book is a collection of talks he presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series titled Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022). His most recent poetry collection, Sho (Wave Books, 2021), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner, and a National Book Award, Pen America, Hurston/Wright, Kingsley Tufts, and Big Other Book Award finalist. He is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America’s Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell. Kearney is a 2022 McKnight Writing Fellow. A Whiting Writer’s and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
