NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� An $85,000 literary prize has been awarded to Sandra Lim, a poet who has published three collections. Lim is this year's winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, given to an American poet of 鈥渆xceptional talent.鈥�
The award was announced Wednesday by Poets & Writers, a nonprofit organization that publishes Poets & Writers Magazine and helps support hundreds of writers each year.
鈥淲ielding a striking combination of cool detachment and sly humor, Lim constantly points to the mundane aspects of the world and to how we nevertheless cling to them, always expecting something more,鈥� the judges' citation reads in part. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a poetry of interrogation, whose fierceness lies, paradoxically, in its quiet steadiness and precision.鈥�
Lim's books include 鈥淭he Curious Thing,鈥� 鈥淭he Wilderness" and 鈥淟oveliest Grotesque," and her work has appeared in a numerous publications.
Joy Harjo, Henri Cole, Sonia Sanchez and Claudia Rankine are among the previous winners of the Jackson prize.
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This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the poet's last name from 鈥淟in鈥� to 鈥淟im鈥� in one instance.
The Associated Press
