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half-light

[haf-lahyt, hahf-] / ˈhæfˌlaɪt, ˈhɑf- /




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"Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016" by Frank Bidart won the honors in poetry, and "Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" by James Forman Jr. won the award in general nonfiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2018

In the poetry category, a three-time Pulitzer finalist, Frank Bidart, won for Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2017

Half-light, half-shadow, let my spirit sleep They never learnt to love who never knew to weep.

From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Half-light came in through a window covered with a black iron grill whose openings were barely wide enough to push a finger through.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert




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