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For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful, Rilkean attention to the layered world that surrounds us. In The Galleons, he widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and aftermath of colonialism. More about this book >
Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Barot’s fourth book of poems, The Galleons, was Longlisted for the National Book Award, his collection Chord received the PEN Open Book Award, and his 2008 work Want was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A former Guggenheim and Stegner Fellow, Barot currently lives in Tacoma, WA where he directs The Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
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