Trap Street Able Muse Book Award For Poetry

"Trap Street is the winner of the 2019 Able Muse Book Award, and the first collection of poetry by Will Cordeiro. Of, Trap Street, David Mason, the judge for the 2019 Able Book Award says, "Cordeira does not write only about the desert. He has lived in several different parts of the country, including its coasts, which he observes with the same careful detail. He knows the borders, the limits people find or place on their own lives. Trap Street is a map of vanishing dreams, true to the country as it struggles to exist. Yet the person who inhabits these poems has dignified the writing of them with real care and an ear for the elevated vernacular. His declaration that "Earth's everything I am" runs through every page of the book, mordant, restless and abiding. ""--