![banana [ ]](https://www.recordtimber.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/banana.webp)
Winner, 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry | Finalist, 2022 NBCC Award for Poetry | Winner, 2023 Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award | Finalist, 2023 Washington State Book Award in Poetry
The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos’s debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family, and personal memories. At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of…
