Synopsis
Selected by Mark Doty from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Melissa Stein's debut Rough Honey is a startling, sensuous collection. These poems speak of fragility and power, the contradictions of pleasure, the bruises we bear. With remarkable range, they carry us from a whitewater rafting calamity to the "torrents of wheat" on a family farm; from a peepshow's "manageable storm of boredom and sex" to a passionate fall from grace in an orchard. By turns buoyant and forlorn, Rough Honey's characters both long for and abandon hope of true connection, of home. But their struggles are rendered in language so radiant, it can't help but hint at the possibility of transcendence, the sheer sweetness in being alive.
From "Want Me":
Lemons crystallized in sugar, glistening
on a blue-glazed plate. The rarest volume
bound in blood leather. A silk carpet
woven so finely you can't push a needle through,
that from one edge is the silver of a leaf
underwater, and from the other bleu lumiere,
first frost on the cornflowers. A duet for cello
and woodsmoke, violin and icicle. Tangle of
black hair steeped in sandalwood, jasmine,
bergamot and vetiver and jewelled
with pomegranate seeds . . .
Melissa Stein's poems have appeared in leading literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, Tin House, New England Review, The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Best New Poets. She lives in San Francisco.
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Melissa Stein: Melissa Stein won the APR/Honickman Prize with her debut volume Rough Honey. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Yale Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, the Southern Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
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