Shane Book is an award-winning poet and filmmaker, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His book of poetry, Congotronic, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2015.¿His other honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award.

Shane Book is an award-winning poet and filmmaker, graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His book of poetry, Congotronic, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2015. His other honors include a New York Times Fellowship in Poetry, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a National Magazine Award.

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Litost: A Style Manual
The One
Homecoming
The Lost Conquistador
Photograph of Religious sacrifice, Tarahumara, Mexico, 1984
Santa Cruz
Stark Room
Dust
Uganda, 1997
Mistakes
The Beach
Offering

II

San Fernando, Trinidad, 1954
Blind woman of Gondan
Shaving my grandfather in his hospital bed(2)
The Market
My people
Shaving my grandfather in his hospital bed (1)
Stop

III
To A Curl of Water