Bøker i The Iowa Poetry Prize Series-serien

Presents language that is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness and beauty, dreams and awakenings. This title features poems that capture 'the Exact and the Vast' of consciousness in intense lyric verse with an angular and almost scientific sensitivity.

Gives us a poetic inventory in a display of voices and accents. These poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair.

In these poems, Lesle Lewis's craft rides the waves of the New England landscape, both internal and external. If her world is a collage, as she says, then her poems provide the glue that anchors everything from shifts in the weather to world events to a cacophony of thoughts.

Whether wandering the paths of the imagination, driving through sparsely populated countryside, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana's poems attend to the ways we are indelibly marked by habitat. Shot full of accidental attachments and reluctant transience, Natural Selections produces from vibrant contradiction potent song.