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2008 Artist Projects Recipients Chris Pexa – A Throne of Horses. The poet will produce a book-length collection of prose poems exploring the intersections of family stories and official histories of the Spirit Lake Sioux reservation by imaging the afterlife of a recently-deceased tribal elder—the poet’s grandmother—as an escape narrative. Moving freely through time, and using as a source book the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Pexa will reimagine the events and figures through the chapter on “Great Liberation by Hearing.” Pexa teaches English and Creative Writing at Pima Community College. He lives in Tucson. Panel Comments: Pexa’s prose poems are slyly sophisticated without being presumptuous. It seems to us that he writes out of a Whitman-like trance—a wholly new voice in contemporary poetry. We can’t wait to read his book. We will buy his book.
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