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Rueful, tender visions of the Apocalypse as seen from the Midwest

Stunning new work by this inimitable French master

It's rare for a first book to demonstrate the confidence and distinctive voice of Blood Hyphen. Through the publication of individual poems in journals over several years, readers have become aware of Kenny Williams as a strikingly original writer, but the range and depth of his achievement in this collection are remarkable. Williams handles big concerns--faith, hurricanes, history, the conundrum of the body--with sly humor, assurance, and poise, instantly establishing himself as a mature and memorable presence.

Winner of the 2011 FIELD Poetry Prize. "Like the seventeenth-century Dutch painters who divided the space of their framed canvases into repeated geometries of rectangles and squares and light, Mark Neely writes poems that play four-square with poetry and with the heart. And like those Dutch interiors, his poems are at once intimate and timeless." Angie Estes

Start, Jean Gallagher's third full-length collection, turns to the world of Greek mythology, using the figures of Demeter and Persephone to explore the mysteries of motherhood, loss, grief, and renewal. Her brilliant concision and riveting music bring the ancient narrative sharply into the present, transforming it to a vision that feels thrillingly contemporary and personal.

These poems attend to the intricacies of intimacy--with the self, the beloved, the natural world, the divine