Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author\'s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991.
Colliding with the grand figures of late \'80s and early \'90s pop culture, Muradyan\'s imagination pushes the reader forward, confronting the painful loss of identity that assimilation brings..
Instead, the poems in American Radiance look for a home in history, folklore, misery, laughter, language, and Prince\'s outstretched hand.
What does it mean to be an American? Luisa Muradyan doesn\'t try to provide an answer.
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, American Radiance, at turns funny, tragic, and haunting, reflects on the author\'s experience immigrating as a child to the United States from Ukraine in 1991
