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Winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
William Archila’s S is For is an investigation of all things dark and invisible where the speaker addresses the dear republic of Central America and his beloved north as two major icons of the imagination. Inventive & compassionate, the poems explore the migrant crisis in a fractured lyric and the haunting past in a reconstructed memorial, always wielding the voice of the immigrant, the refugee, and the ever present exile as a weapon against invisibility and displacement. Archila