FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Owen Lewis, owlewismd@gmail.com
Justin Hargett, justin@kickflippr.com (publicity)
Owen Lewis receives national recognition through the NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD®!
The NYC BIG BOOK AWARD recognized Field Light in the category of poetry as a DistinguishedFavorite.
The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. Selected award winners and distinguished favorites are based on overall excellence.
Field Light (Dos Madres Press) is a book of and about the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Written as a unified work, with some sections is prose and dramatic formats, it encompasses the social, cultural, and political histories of an area known for its artists and social justice. The voices of W.E.B. Du Bois, Elizabeth Mumbet (first slave freed in Massachusetts in 1781), Daniel Chester French (sculptor of the Lincoln memorial), Norman Rockwell and his last political paintings, Hawthorne, Melville, and nearby writers such as Stanley Kunitz and Chris Gilbert form parts of this collage-like work that asks how we can know can know and enter history, how the self expands when personal and public history meet.