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The poems in this award-winning collection take the reader on a ride with things that fly, including the poet's grandmother (who was an aerialist with Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth), birds, ghosts, insects, ancestors, an angel or two, as well as humans attempting to flee. The manuscript was a finalist for The Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, The May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, The Sally Albiso Poetry Book Award, The Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, and The Brighthorse Prize. One of the poems, "Offering," won the 2018 E.E. Cummings Award from New England Poetry Club, and another, "Appropriation," was awarded a Florida Review 2018 Editors' Prize. Arresting images by artist Rachel Brumer interlace the poems in this extraordinary collection, enhancing their sense of wonder and surprise.
About the author
Lillo Way's chapbook, Dubious Moon, won the Hudson Valley Writers Center's Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest and was published in 2018. Her writing has appeared in New Letters, Poet Lore, North American Review, New Orleans Review, Tampa Review, Louisville Review, Poetry East, among others. Way has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for her choreographic work involving poetry.
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