Some of You Will Know

Come read for yourself why James Laughlin Prize winner David Rivard's newest book solidifies him as one of our best and most enduring poets. With poems that are both deeply personal and enticingly universal, Some of You Will Know, startles the heart and invites the mind to play. With a controlled hand, Rivard guides us into a world that shows what words can do. Of Rivard's work, Robert Pinsky tells us, "The speed of mind, compressing details and emotions, covering the maximum distance in the least time, gives this writing its thrill.

David Rivard is the author of six previous books, including Standoff, Sugartown, Wise Poison, and Torque. His work has won the PEN/New England Prize in poetry, the James Laughlin Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and he has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Among his other honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2006, he was given the O.B. Hardison Poetry Prize by the Folger Shakespeare Library in recognition of both his writing and teaching. He lives on the coast of Maine.