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LEVIATHAN

MICHAEL SHEWMAKER

Books

BOOKS

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"Leviathan strikes one as Job might have struck its first readers—which, it seems to me, is more than one can reasonably hope from any book. For both its source and for its readers, Leviathan is a renewal."

—Shane McCrae

                   author of Sometimes I Never Suffered

About

WHO

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Michael Shewmaker is the author of LEVIATHAN (2023) and PENUMBRA (2017), winner of the 2016 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His recent poems appear in Best American Poetry, The Believer, Oxford American, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Yale Review, and other literary journals and anthologies. Born in Texarkana, Texas, he earned an M.F.A. from McNeese State University and a Ph.D. in creative writing from Texas Tech University. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Emily.

Poems

POEMS

Anniversary

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Lazarus Syndrome

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The Pastor

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The Beach

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Horoscope for my Dying Father

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Contact

CONTACT

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