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Bili Bidjocka, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
TIM SEIBLES
Tim Seibles was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2016 to 2018. He is a former National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center fellow. His seven books of poetry include Fast Animal, which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award, winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetry. This was followed by One Turn Around the Sun in 2017. His latest collection, Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems was released by Etruscan Press in 2022. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Furious Flower Poetry Center in 2024.
“Seibles’ images are luminous—almost unbearably vivid—evocations of the world around us, past and present.”
—Martín Espada
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Through precise language, striking and intimate images, a paradox of smart irony and disarming sincerity, and a persistant awareness of the pressure of economic and political realities, Seibles offers us a rich and memorable inquiry into life.
—Ellen Bass
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“When the world grows nostalgic, he swings real. When the world tuns bitter, he stretches out his arms in verse. When the world tries to deny, he stares it in the face and tells the truth. Then asks it for a dance.”
—Cornelius Eady
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“Tim Seibles’ version of our changing and growing American speech range widely, from anguish to comedy, from transcendence to earthly bewilderment.”
—Li-Young Lee
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“Seibles writes with a lucidity of heart and head and soul…his poems are vivid and succinct and have an ease and a grace and wholeness about them.”
—Amy Gerstler, Best American Poetry
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