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Kenny Williams
BLOOD HYPHEN
Winner of the 2015 FIELD Poetry Prize
"The poems in Blood Hyphen may seem plainspoken and, in moments, surreal—but they are also deeply intelligent, rhetorically sophisticated, and imbued with theological anxiety and existential wit. This is a terrific first book."
—Kevin Prufer
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Timothy O'Keefe
THE GOODBYE TOWN
Winner of the 2010 FIELD Poetry Prize
"O’Keefe’s poems are not Time, but another thing that flies—grace, soul, fleeting love, the furious imagination of a poet so attendant to his art as to be contemporary without simply resorting to novelty. Here are poems that vary the existing patterns without abandoning them, that engage sensation without being simply sensational, that elegize the province of what is foregone without being elegies."
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Beckian Fritz Goldberg
LIE AWAKE LAKE
Winner of the 2004 FIELD Poetry Prize
"Lie Awake Lake is
made out of a brilliance of thought, of heart,
and of language that we find only in the truest
poetry. This fierce homage to the body and
to the spirit reminds me of Ettie Hillesum's
letters from the transit camp at Westerbork
in the Netherlands in 1942-43; it is as relentless
and unmediated as if it was letters or diaries,
but it is song--come to give us human animals
pleasure and to help us endure."
--Jean Valentine
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Jonah Winter
AMNESIA
Winner of the 2003 FIELD Poetry Prize
"Jonah Winter resides
in the Hotel Amnesia, the Hotel of Stars--and
though he's a comedian, his room is one along
the corridor of the wistful, urbane dreamers:
Joseph Cornell, Jean Cocteau. Anais Nin, Charles
Simic. At the heart of his method is the list,
almost verbless: his marvelous catalogues place
unlikely things side by side, creating within
the frame of the poem the tantalizing windows
of the city of dream."
--Mark Doty
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Carol Moldaw
THE LIGHTNING FIELD
Winner of the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize
"In Carol Moldaw's precise, objective poems, a Parnassian art is reborn. These poems keep a remarkable balance between inner and outer worlds, between dream-life and stern logic. They are works of art."
--Rosanna Warren
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Angie Estes
VOICE-OVER
Winner of the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize
"Angie Estes' stunning
new collection of poems is a brilliant and
intellectually dazzling investigation of the
often unstable relationship between language
and experience. These heart-breaking and inventive
poems negotiate the oscillations of event and
memory in order to reveal the delicate and
highly filigreed interweaving--in our lives--of
action, meditation, and utterance. Beauty and
insight spill off every page of this rich,
compelling, and essential new book of poetry."
--David St. John
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Ralph Burns
GHOST NOTES
Winner of the 2000 FIELD Poetry Prize
In his deeply innovative and
beautifully human Ghost Notes, Ralph
Burns explores the vivid relation between American
jazz and American poetry. His book embodies
the movement of jazz. In the long title poem
he plays wide open, without a mute, as Red
Allen advises. The result is inclusive and
exhilarating, a structure that keeps on opening
and opening.
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Timothy Kelly
STRONGER
Winner of the 1999 FIELD Poetry Prize
"Stronger is one of the strongest things I've read in ages. Timothy Kelly writes poems rich with music, intelligence and compassion. They make great moves, which should be no surprise, since they often rise from the deep terrain of the physical form, the body, into all the layerings and elevations of thought and existence."
--Naomi Shihab Nye
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