Ornithologies

Poteat, Joshua

ISBN 10: 0938078909 / ISBN 13: 9780938078906

Published by Anhinga Press, 2006

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Synopsis:

Poetry. Poteat's ORNITHOLOGIES is the winner of the 2004 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. "With natural elegance and untiring invention, Joshua Poteat writes some of the most remarkable poetry you are ever likely to encounter. In storylines that move beyond the virtues of narrative into a region of wonder, combining violence and tenderness in an intimate voice capable of revelations as swift and sudden as the sear of lightning, his poems work themselves into the cloudy fabric of your imagination and reside there as unforgettable experiences."-Blackbird. "Poteat tells me things as if I were an audience but invisible. Or as if I were the moon. Yet something real passes between us, which is to say that the book is very good, that it leaves its mark. For here we are the audience of what is clearly an inner voice, flowing forward, throwing out its lovely perceptions, its lyrical lines of praise, its wonderment, its pursuit of moments and places, past and present, where mystery's veil for a moment spark

About the Author: Joshua Poteat has won awards from American Literary Review, River City, Nebraska Review, Marlboro Review, Columbia, Bellingham Review, Yemassee, Lullwater Review, Vermont Studio Center, Catskill Writing Workshop, American Poetry Archives/San Francisco State University, and Universities West Press. He won the 2004 National Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. In 2001, he was the Summer Writer-in-Residence at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center and, in 2002, was awarded an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts featured him in their Spring 2003 issue. His poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, The Greensboro Review, Lit, and many others. His work is part of a two-year international traveling exhibition, Pivot Points, featuring three generations of painters and poets, including Larry Levis, Dave Smith, and Gregory Donovan. He grew up in the woods and marshes of Hampstead, North Carolina, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he edits assorted texts, including art criticism and junk mail for credit card companies.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ornithologies
Publisher: Anhinga Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good