Gasher Book Award
The Gasher Book Award is open to any writer based in the United States, regardless of publication history. The winner will receive $1,000 + Publication and 20 free copies.​
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2024 Winner
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Elijah Guerra
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Holograms in the Field
Holograms in the Field is an assemblage of five long poems. Each poem is a meditation on a field—a Remedios Varo painting, a John Cage string quartet, a Martha Graham dance—where the self is a fold in the fabric of being, where selves unfold into particles in the fog. The book is an atmosphere study, where everything is waves dancing with tonal interchangeability, where the sentence is a landscape stretching between horizons. Using the breath as a compass, and the breath-like long line as a practice, these poems wait for the exhale to spill the body into expanse.
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Elijah Guerra is the author of the chapbook Feral Ecology (Bottlecap Press 2024). Their poems are in Annulet, ballast, Glass, TAGVVERK, and elsewhere.
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