{"id":13729,"date":"2022-05-20T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2022-05-20T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:37:28","slug":"chad-foret-william-faulkner-william-wisdom-award-grand-prize-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/announcements\/chad-foret-william-faulkner-william-wisdom-award-grand-prize-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Foret, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award Grand\u00a0Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/scenes-from-a-ain-country\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13725\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?attachment_id=13725\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,754\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"raincountry-cover-500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-13725 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500-400x603.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/raincountry-cover-500-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>This year&#8217;s William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award Grand Prize Winner is Chad Foret for his paean to south Louisiana, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/scenes-from-a-ain-country\"><em>Scenes from a Rain Country<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;I am confident writers of the 22nd century will regard Chad Foret\u2019s <i>Scenes from a Rain Country<\/i> as the text where surrealism and intimacy swam a mutual reservoir,&#8221; says Jon Riccio of this collection, which gives some idea of the range of Foret&#8217;s poetic voice.<\/p>\n<p>Preorder pricing until the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a one-poem teaser:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Meanwhile on the Moon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Over Mare Imbrium basin,<br \/>birds are bland, diamonds<br \/>with boiled wings, bullet<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">holes valued higher than our very<br \/>breath. Even here the downpours<br \/>come to party, leave with empty<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">lungs. We bob for bloodshot<br \/>eyes in buckets of buttermilk,<br \/>these our current incarnations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Every year the fragments of worship<br \/>from centuries before finally arrive,<br \/>full of soft light, wave admiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">We feed the world these words<br \/>&amp; take the forms of frightened<br \/>horses like a dark glitch, drain<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">your language of love &amp; leave<br \/>our bodies long enough to lick<br \/>your sightless lives once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award Grand Prize Winner is Chad Foret for his paean to south Louisiana, Scenes from a Rain Country. &#8220;I am confident writers of the 22nd century will regard Chad Foret\u2019s Scenes from a Rain Country as the text where surrealism and intimacy swam a mutual reservoir,&#8221; says Jon Riccio of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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