First Editions from Winners of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize

2015 • Alicia Jo Rabins, Divinity School selected by C. D. Wright ”Alicia Jo Rabins’ poems bring together the spiritual, the surrealist, and the erotic. Their wild imagination and fierce passion are aroused by hunger of the soul, and they use poetic intelligence as a desperate hammer to break through the ordinary self, to union, or reunion—with what? The Sufighazal, the Zen koan, and the Hassidic parable—those traditions are alive here with transcendental mirth, lots of duende, and lots of sobriety. This beautiful agonizing mess—these poems drag you right into the middle of it.” —Tony Hoagland 2014 • Katherine Bode-Lang, The Reformation selected by Stephen Dunn 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. “One of the classic tricks of actors…

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