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| 2013-02-10 | 2012 Levine Prize Winner |
Barbara Brinson Curiel has won the 2012 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry for her collection, Mexican Jenny and Other Poems. Her book will be published in 2013 by Anhinga Press. |
| The Grace to Leave (2012/Van K. Brock Florida Poetry Series, by Lola Haskins) |
Haskins... understands Lorca's idea of duende, a passionate spirit, and evokes it naturally in her work. -- Booklist |
| Instructions for Preparing your Skin (2012/Levine Prize in Poetry, by Ariana Nadia Nash) |
Ariana Nadia Nash's Instructions for Preparing Your Skin is an exquisitely passionate first book. Mostly I am struck by the lyrical frankness of the poems, and how they sustain an uncanny purity and yet are totally down to earth. -- Malena Mörling |
| Only Blue Body (2012/Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, by Rosalynde Vas Dias) |
Only Blue Body is about becoming animal in a world that is not fairytale. Exquisitely written, its poems boldly confront contemporary fear and beauty. "I've always wanted dark blue skin" writes the poet -- and it's a bruise she's after, the throat unguarded, the jaw tipped upward. Viewed from a "constricted point of light," everything is out of scale, fearfully small or far too big. Much of the imagery startles: a mosquito becomes a brood mare, a horse a grackle. You can't take your eyes off the fire's "salamander-shaped eddies" because nothing in the poem suggests its arrival, nothing predicts its exit. -- Contest judge Terese Svoboda |
| If Storm, (2013/Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, by Anna Ross) |
More information will be posted as it becomes available. |
| Mexican Jenny and Other Poems (2013/Levine Prize in Poetry, by Barbara Brinson Curiel) |
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