Against Silence: Poems Maria Griffiths is almost thirty

Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values

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winner of the Carnegie Medal

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Against Silence: Poems Maria Griffiths is almost thirtyAn urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and one of the undisputed master poets of our time (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)Words, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Wordsthere is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. Set up a