Award-winning poet and novelist Pablo Medina promises that “you’ll be heartened by the wisdom, clarity, and honesty” of the new poetry collection by Professor of English Emerita Cathryn Hankla ’80, M.A. ’82.

不朽的东西, released this month by 美世大学出版社, is Hankla’s 11th volume of poetry and second full-length collection of prose poems. It offers what the publisher describes as “an intimate catalog of what’s remembered, what’s observed, and what’s imagined. Lyrical or narrative by turns, nuanced and deft, Hankla’s prose poems range through the realms of reflection and imagi赌球在线, finding them not so different….Significance pours in equal measures from relationships, objects, and situations meant to mark us, confound us, and 赌球在线 us continually from contact with the wonderous and the ordinary – and the insights we take away.”

Medina calls the book “a collection of moments, stories, and encounters that form a labyrinth we could otherwise call the human condition. [汉克拉]像一位老朋友一样对我们说话，我们必须倾听。 If you haven’ t read Hankla before you’ll be surprised at her range – Gershwin, Mozart, tree frogs, Gettysburg – and her music, evident here in prose poems that sing as few can.”

Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor M.A. ’66 praises 不朽的东西‘s prose poems for how they “move with assurance even when the topic may be lack of assurance, drifting from recognizable, concrete surroundings in which comfort is possible, through something like a bead curtain, into realms more privately Cathryn Hankla’s, and now thanks to her multifarious gifts, ours as well. Reading this book has improved my life.”

汉克拉出生在弗吉尼亚州的阿巴拉契亚山城里奇兰兹，她的大部分学术生涯都在霍林斯大学度过。 She directed the 杰克逊创意写作中心, twice chaired the Department of English and Creative Writing, and has served as poetry editor of 霍林斯评论家 since 1996. She was Hollins’ Jackson Professor of Creative Writing from 2012 to 2014.

汉克拉出版了16本多种体裁的书籍，她的作品曾获得詹姆斯·Boatwright三世诗歌奖、笔会联合小说奖和弗吉尼亚艺术委员会诗歌奖。 Her poetry is anthologized in 《南方诗选》，第九卷：弗吉尼亚; 南阿巴拉契亚文学野外指南; 世界英语诗歌; 《南方诗选; 谢南多厄：诗歌二十年; and 密西西比评论选集, among others. Her poems, stories, and essays appear regularly in journals such as 新世界写作, 艺术与文学, Jubilat, 阿巴拉契亚遗产, 丹佛的季度, 北美评论, and 阿拉斯加的季度. Her artwork is exhibited at Roanoke’s Market Gallery, and she has received artist fellowships in the U.S. as well as abroad in Malta, Spain, and France.