Winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, <i>North American Stadiums</i> is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.<br><br> "You were supposed to find God here / the signs said." In these poems, hinterlands demand our close attention; overlooked places of industry become sites for pilgrimage; and history large and small—of a city, of a family, of a shirt—is unearthed....
