Street Beggar
Street Beggar, 2017.
The cracks that thread through our society often appear the most pronounced at its margins. At the heart of Street Beggar is an attempt to give voice to the recognition of shared plight; it’s also a breath of air and light into the all-too-isolated, and shadowy blind spot of American consumer culture; it’s poor and forgotten who are, in a way, all of us. By highlighting what beauty remains in the eyes of the thoroughly beaten, sad casualties of a culture of distraction and instant gratification, there is an oblique criticism of value which challenges where and how beauty and meaning are sought and discovered.
Ian
Sheerin
English
| UC Berkeley
Literature
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B.A. English (2018), Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, 2017