Author: Grady Chambers File Type: epub Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, North American Stadiums is an assured debut collection about gracethe places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive. You were supposed to find God here the signs said. In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage and history large and smallof a city, of a family, of a shirtis unearthed. Here is a factory emptying for the day, a snowy road just past border patrol, a baseball game at dusk. Mile signs point us toward Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Salt Lake City, Chicago. And god is not the God expected, but the still moment amid movement a field lit like the heart of the night, black stars stitched to the yellow sweatshirts of men in a crowd. A map bleached pale by time and weather, North American Stadiums is a collection at once resolutely unsentimental yet deeply tender, illuminating the historical forces that shape the places we inhabit and how those places, in turn, shape us. **Review [Chambers] records vivid details and creates an engrossing urban pastoral. . . . These distinctive poems deserve a wide audience.*Washington Post* Exquisite . . . Chambers executes a kind of magic that is perhaps unique to poetry he conjures a moment from nothing, draws the reader inside, and disperses the spell with something as gentle as a shift in the wind direction, or a quiet revelation . . . A crackling first act by a promising new poet.*Booklist* Fabulous . . . Each page is a breathing scene. . . . If memory serves anyone it certainly serves Chambers best, because its impossible to stop reading this work. This should be the start of something big.*Washington Independent Review of Books* This powerful, absorbing first book has the sound and feel of a younger generation. Brilliant language, intelligence, and feeling make North American Stadiums matter. Factory lights, border patrol, gin, handguns, smoke stacks, and war are the geography of many of these eloquent poems, but the solitary poet is always scrutinizing the world with the eyes of a lover.Henri Cole The poems of Grady Chambers fill me with so much pleasure. Intimate histories that never shy away from their speakers complicity in sorrow but also in wonder. These are poems rooted in an idea we call America that understand what cost that naming comes with. What does it mean to make a pastoral of work youve never done? Chambers drives a stake into the heart of the patronizing pastoral we make of backbreaking work and unforgiving labor. What he comes up with? A poetry of the next chapter in our countrys search for meaning.Gabrielle Calvocoressi These are poems of memory and longingcompelling, lyrical, and unsettling. The furniture provided to memory is of the vistas, subway cars, and closed windows of different cities. The unsettling feeling comes with the revelation that for all the urban inventory, this is an American pastoral. A spacious glimpse of an old adventure a poet pushing toward his own frontier. And Grady Chambers is a wonderful poet, equal to the task.Eavan Boland You can tell from the opening notes that Grady Chambers has chops. He can be rhapsodica Midwest rhapsody that includes light from port cranes and train horns in the Twin Cities. He can be elegiaches a genius at departures and fingering the bones in the reliquaries of the open road. Hes got the travelers wandering [wondering] instinct and the [in] dwellers intimacy. At work is a severe moral imagination and a filmic imagination shining with something living while it burns. What a privilege it is to receive the dispatches of this exceptional book.Bruce Smith These poems reminded me in the best way of Denis Johnson, Walt Whitman, Philip Levine, and even Jack Kerouac. Reading North American Stadiums reminded me that there is always room, infinite room, for another great new poetic voice, a young soul searching for emotional truth, probing with sensitive emotion the hidden American places. As a matter of fact, Id say we need this book right now. We need this new voice.David Means About the Author Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. His writing has appeared in Adroit Journal Diode Poetry Journal Forklift, Ohio Nashville Review Ninth Letter New Ohio Review and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.

Author: Alexa Stiller File Type: pdf For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial-the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation-neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of Subsequent Trials-ignores the unique historical and legal character of the NMT trials, which differed significantly from that of their predecessor. The NMT trials marked a decisive shift both in terms of analysis of the Third Reich and conceptualization of international criminal law. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the NMT and brings together diverse perspectives from the fields of law, history, and political science, exploring the genesis, impact, and legacy of the twelve Military Tribunals held at Nuremberg between 1946 and 1949. Kim C. Priemel is Assistant Professor of History at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Alexa Stiller is Research Associate at the Department of Modern History and Contemporary History, University of Berne, Switzerland.**