goat song - Dean Gessie

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Résumé :
Dean Gessie's scintillating goat song reveals a poet and writer at the height of his powers. Defying genre and canon, Gessie shapeshifts, skin shucks and shimmies in this masterfully crafted, explosively seditious, viscerally engaging magnum opus of satire. Equal parts alchemy, threnody and rebel gospel, goat song is a potent protest song to human, animal and planetary suffering. Threaded through with finely honed lyric, motif, imagery and metaphor, not a word is spare. This collection sings throughout with razor's edge wit and supremely slick syntax. Anne Casey, poet and writer, winner of multiple international awards, including first prize in the American Writers Review Contest 2021 and winner of the 2021 iWoman Global Award in the field of literature.

Biographie:
Dean Gessie is an author and poet who has won dozens of international awards and prizes. Among other honors, Dean won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in England, the Allingham Arts Festival Poetry Competition in Ireland, the Samuel Washington Allen Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the COP26 Poetry Competition in Scotland, the UN-aligned Poetry Contest in Finland, a Creators of Justice Literary Award [Fiction Category] from the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York and the Indigo Open Poetry Prize in England. Also in England, he was one of twenty international poets included in the Poetry Archive NOW! World View 2022 Video Anthology. Elsewhere, Dean won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the Enizagam Poetry Contest in California, the Ageless Authors Poetry Contest in Texas, the Spoon River Review Editors' Prize in Illinois and the Southern Shakespeare Company Sonnet Contest in Florida. In addition, Dean was included twice in The 64 Best Poets by Black Mountain Press in North Carolina and his collection of award-winning short stories - called Anthropocene - won an Eyelands Book Award in Greece, the Uncollected Press Prize in Maryland and the Seven Hills Literary Contest in Florida. Dean's latest release - goat song with Uncollected Press - also won the Seven Hills Literary Contest for best international poetry collection since 2020.