Gregory Pardlo

About the Author

Gregory Pardlo won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry with his title Digest. (Bowker Author Biography)

Image credit: Poet Gregory Pardlo at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44700876

Works by Gregory Pardlo

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Digest (Stahlecker Selections) (2014) 114 copies, 1 review

Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America (2018) 60 copies, 1 review

Totem (APR Honickman 1st Book Prize) (2007) 33 copies

Spectral Evidence: Poems (2024) 8 copies, 1 review

Introduction to "The Autobiography of a Ex-Colored Man" 2 copies

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Associated Works

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story (2021) — Contributor — 1,756 copies, 29 reviews

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 195 copies, 4 reviews

The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 122 copies, 3 reviews

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contributor — 120 copies

The Best American Poetry 2014 (The Best American Poetry series) (2014) — Contributor — 82 copies

Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (2021) — Contributor — 69 copies, 3 reviews

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 41 copies, 1 review

Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (2006) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review

The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contributor — 19 copies

Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2019) — Contributor — 14 copies

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (2018) — Contributor — 11 copies

Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems, For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa (2024) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Spectral Evidence: Poems by Gregory Pardlo

I enjoyed this collection a lot, though I also think a lot of it went over my head. It is dense, his wordplay and just his use of language are incredible. The prologue, explaining the title, was appreciated and also relevant to various poems in the collection.

Pardlo moves from Tituba to MOVE to documents with no additional commentary, to performances and drugs, and Bernini's Teresa. Somehow these different topics make a coherent whole.

My favorites from the collection:
• Narratio--very short, magnificent wordplay
• Question and Answer--at a poetry reading
• Tall Poppies--Genocide, Opium, Oxycontin, more genocide
• Beauty School Wig Head: The Marion Devotions--a longer poem that takes on painting, photography, and more… (more)

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Dreesie | Nov 11, 2024 |

Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in… by Gregory Pardlo

Funny, sad memoir of the life and times of a poet's dysfunctional family. Gregory Pardlo, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry, Digest, has interesting and insightful reflections throughout, related to family, to society, and to literature.

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jdukuray | Jun 23, 2021 |

Digest by Gregory Pardlo

A powerful collection of diverse poems which is justly deserving of all the acclaim it has garnered. I especially enjoyed the occasional series of poems linked together by a common thread, One series of poems, for instance, begins with each one being kick started by a quote from a famous historical personage (St. Augustine, for instance) In fact. Mr. Pardlo's poems are effectively drenched with historical references. I love the way Pardlo gives deeply of himself in each well constructed verse.

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