Ansel Elkins’s debut collection of poetry, Blue Yodel, was selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition (forthcoming in April ). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The Believer, Best New Poets , Ecotone, Guernica, Gulf Coast, the North American Review, the Southern Review, and others. Caught in the ambivalence characteristic of Southern culture, Elkins’s Blue Yodel depicts a landscape abundant with vegetation, whose denizens frequently seek departure—a Keatsian aspiration to escape from a homeland haunted by the moral stains of the past. This is as true of “Going to the Movies Alone”—where the speaker opines, “Tonight, I want to see something explode”—as it is of “War Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Ansel Elkins reads three poems from her debut collection, Blue Yodel, forthcoming in March from Yale University Press. Blues for the Death of the Sun. The evening sun descended with the decorum of an old man Who removes his wide-brimmed hat as a funeral march passes. August. The rivers rose. We saw the sun www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.
Author/Creator: Elkins, Ansel, author., Author, Publication: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, [] Format/Description: Book 1 online resource (88 p.) Series. Ansel Elkins is the first Latina to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Herbook, Blue Yodel, was selected by Carl Phillips for the prize. The poems in this collection are steeped in the landscapes of the Deep South and the lives of its inhabitants—the poor, the marginalized, the outcast. Ansel Elkins's debut collection of poetry, Blue Yodel, was selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets www.doorway.ru poems have appeared in AGNI, The Believer, Best New Poets , Ecotone, Guernica, Gulf Coast, the North American Review, the Southern Review, and www.doorway.ru is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a North Carolina.
Blue Yodel by Ansel Elkins is the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Elkins has earned degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Believer, Best New Poets , Ecotone, Guernica, Gulf Coast, the North American Review, the Southern Review, and others. Ansel Elkins reads three poems from her debut collection, Blue Yodel, forthcoming in March from Yale University Press. Blues for the Death of the Sun. The evening sun descended with the decorum of an old man Who removes his wide-brimmed hat as a funeral march passes. August. The rivers rose. We saw the sun vanish. Ansel Elkins was born in Alabama. She earned her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her first collection of poetry, Blue Yodel (), won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Elkins’s poetry, in her own words, “explores the South as a complex place of racial violence and isolation, but also familial love.”.
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