Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book.In her introduction Adrienne Rich describes Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue, as "a fully conceived book, speaking as a whole from the first lines to the las
“His themes are easily sentimental. . . . There’s a tension in the work that I just find incredibly fresh.” —Gregory Pardlo, judge of the 2018 Honickman First Book AwardWinner of the prestigious Honi
“His themes are easily sentimental. . . . There’s a tension in the work that I just find incredibly fresh.” —Gregory Pardlo, judge of the 2018 Honickman First Book AwardWinner of the prestigious Honi
Likenesses explores the frontiers of metaphor and the power of repetition. The poems are at times at times skeptical, at times prayer-like, at times compulsive. They are populated by constantly shifti
A doctor contemplates Lenin's embalmed body; two angels flank an open chest during a heart transplant; a father's anger turns into a summer thunderstorm... Each of Levin's poems is an astonishing inve
Katherine Bode-Lang's fierce and lyrical poems undertake the reformation of family mythology, place, and loves that each life requires to become its own. As Stephen Dunn notes in his introduction, "On