Thrown Voice

The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice—once in the body, once in the world
 
Isabel Neal’s prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central tensions between beauty and the unseen, contact and the mysterious, arrival and undoing. These are poems that are vocally sharp, strange, freely moving and then utterly still, both tender and forceful in their curiosity. Thrown Voice travels—along the poet’s image worlds and beloved waterways—in utterly unexpected ways: “A thaw thunders loose / Just one mink darkens the ice / A live ampersand.”

About the author

Isabel Neal teaches literature and creative writing in Maine. A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, she has received fellowships from Lighthouse Works, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Neal
• Assisted by: Armantrout Rae (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.05.2026
• EAN: 9780300285062
• ISBN: 978-0-300-28506-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors, Poetry / Poems