Digest (poetry collection)

Digest is a 2014 poetry collection by Gregory Pardlo published by Four Way Books.

Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was a nominee for the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the 46th NAACP Image Award.

[1][2] Pardlo started work on the collection in 2004 "as an effort to mesh academic with creative writing.

"[3] Digest can be described as a mix of free verse and prose poems.

"[5] This thematic line has also been described as a kind of identity formation, drawing on both national and personal history to define the limits of the collection's shared speaker.