SEED VAULT Format: Paperback

Poetry. Lucas Jacob's debut collection contains something for every reader. A trio of sonnets encompassing both the eighteenth-century missions and the twentieth-century dance halls of San Antonio; a section-long poem sequence that begins and ends in a prison yard in Stalin's gulag, and in between travels the world in the company of history's greatest agricultural botanist; a series of playful interrogations of the rhetoric of the forty-fifth President of the United States. These poems honor the need to find the words for experiences, thoughts, and feelings that exist at, or just beyond, the edge of language.

Author of the chapbooks A Hole in the Light (Anchor & Plume Press, 2015) and Wishes Wished Just Hard Enough (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), Lucas Jacob has received the Gival Press TriLanguage Poetry Prize and the Houston Poetry Festival's Lucille Johnson Clark Award. His work has appeared in journals including Southwest Review, RHINO, Hopkins Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. He earned his Bachelor's degree at Carleton College (MN) and his Master's at Temple University (PA). For more than twenty years, he has been a teacher and administrator in K-12 schools across the United States. In 2004-05, he had the privilege of serving as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Budapest, Hungary. A native of the Chicago area, he now lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.