Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series. As this past year's judge for the National Poetry Series, Ray DiPalma, wrote, "the poems collected here represent far more than a finely articulated gathering of poems. The wide-ranging and imaginatively animated expressions of self-revelation at work in these texts establish an original and confident presence, that takes it step by step, in part, from the visionary writing of such poets as Trakl, Desnos, and Michaux. This is a book that asks some valuable new questions -- the very ...
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Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series. As this past year's judge for the National Poetry Series, Ray DiPalma, wrote, "the poems collected here represent far more than a finely articulated gathering of poems. The wide-ranging and imaginatively animated expressions of self-revelation at work in these texts establish an original and confident presence, that takes it step by step, in part, from the visionary writing of such poets as Trakl, Desnos, and Michaux. This is a book that asks some valuable new questions -- the very nature of whose answers offers the perplexing consolations that bring us to the poem in the first place. A rare achievement".
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