It's a really strong collection. It's a cliche to say it, but all the finalists were really fine collections; it made the judging difficult but satisfying.
Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Yes! I was hoping you would pick her collection. I really like her poems.
She is a good poet. I have admired many of the poems of hers I have seen in magazines over the past few years.
It's a really strong collection. It's a cliche to say it, but all the finalists were really fine collections; it made the judging difficult but satisfying.
I was pretty sure you would pick her as well. She's good!
I had missed her somehow. This was the first time I'd ever read her work. I'm glad others like it too!
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