Iowa Poetry Prize Copyright (c) 2013 University of Iowa All rights reserved. http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp Recent documents in Iowa Poetry Prize en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 17:37:19 PDT 3600 The adamant: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/26 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/26 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:19:05 PDT Mary Ruefle Cardinal points: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/25 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/25 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:19:05 PDT Michael Pettit Love's answer: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/24 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/24 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:19:04 PDT Michael Heffernan The gates of the elect kingdom: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/22 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/22 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:39 PDT John Wood Sunflower facing the sun: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/23 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/23 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:39 PDT Greg Pape Isolato: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/21 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/21 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:38 PDT Larissa Szporluk Try: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/20 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/20 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:38 PDT Cole Swensen Laughing Africa: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/19 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/19 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:37 PDT Terese Svoboda Furious cooking: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/18 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/18 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:36 PDT By turns chic, romantic, sardonic, droll, seductive, and in your face, Maureen Seaton is a cornucopia of attitudes and styles, a street-smart, deeply talented woman who wryly contemplates the charades that the self and the world assume - and how hard it is to stay in focus the morning after. It gets very, very hot in Seaton's kitchen and in her poems. As this inventive and imaginative poet states, "Furious Cooking is a stew of accidents and incidents roiling across universes.".

Seaton creates curious and energetic juxtapositions; she revisits violence and assesses its damages. The poet/woman in the thick of this caldron instigates polarities and assumes the roles of inquisitor and heretic, perpetrator and child, painter and artifact, scientist and specimen. She careens circularly through the hypocrisies and atrocities of church and partner, established sanctioned realities, the seeming senseless death of loved ones in this life and long ago.

]]> Maureen Seaton The bunker in the parsley fields: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/16 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/16 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:35 PDT Gary Gildner Tropical depressions: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/17 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/17 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:35 PDT Elton Glaser Hotel Malabar: a narrative poem http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/15 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/15 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:34 PDT A narrative poem on the adventures of a philosophical Yankee "banana hand" in Central America. "Men get older and die, my dear, but jungle's / always young and full of piss and vinegar."

]]> Brendan Galvin Swamp candles: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/14 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/14 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:33 PDT In his convincing and highly accomplished fifth book, Ralph Burns draws on his deep practice and experience. His tones, forms, and subjects are various and striking, the work of a poet mature and courageous enough to range through the full spectrum of his emotions.

Sometimes Burns is haunted by the strength and fallibility of the Christian tradition, and in many of his poems he explores the conflicts between individuals and the larger world - the mystery and responsibility of choice, consequence and inconsequence, "the terror of being taken."

]]> Ralph Burns Wake: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/13 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/13 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:32 PDT Bin Ramke A shared life: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/12 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/12 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:31 PDT Katherine Soniat Slow work through sand: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/10 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/10 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:29 PDT Leslie Ullman In primary light: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/11 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/11 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:29 PDT John Wood is well known for his brilliant writing on the history of photography, but for many years he has also centered on his work as a poet, publishing in some of the very best magazines and gaining the deep admiration of many writers and poets. This book is testimony of his devotion to his craft - a fully realized, mature, and carefully constructed collection.

]]> John Wood The penultimate suitor: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/8 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/8 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:28 PDT Mary Leader The oval hour: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/9 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/9 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:28 PDT Kathleen Peirce Tree of heaven: poems http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/7 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_ipp/7 Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:26 PDT This second book by James McKean displays a large, dignified, and precise talent - McKean is always looking and reaching out to the difficult world, pulling it to him for examination. Although beginning with outward themes of travels and crossings, Tree of Heaven circles in the end to the journeys of the inner life: the struggle to understand, the ability to see, to suffer the trials of illness and death, to survive love and longing, learning when to leave things as they are, when to let go. McKean's accomplished voice is quiet but firm, at times full of wonder, exploring the personal and discovering what salvation there is in rhythm and words.

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