Blood Hyphen [Paperback]

Its rare for a first book to demonstrate the confidence and distinctive voice of Blood Hyphen. Through the publication of individual poems in journals over several years, readers have become aware of Kenny Williams as a strikingly original writer, but the range and depth of his achievement in this collection are remarkable. Williams handles big concernsfaith, hurricanes, history, the conundrum of the bodywith sly humor, assurance, and poise, instantly establishing himself as a mature and memorable presence.

KENNY WILLIAMSS poems have appeared in FIELD, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, Kenyon Review Online, Carolina Quarterly, Rattle, Fence, Third Coast, Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Richmond, Virginia, and Blood Hyphen is

About the Author At the Pyramids Capsule The Infant Alive and Dead The Courtship The Creature in Mourning for Its Mate Nature Theory Enter Lilith, in Her Garden Memoir of Creation Sugar Blues Tough Room Palace of Illusions Bled to the Edges The Hurricane On the Feast Day of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist Lincoln in the Holy Land Simon of Cyrene Samuel Butler Sorry to Ask Concrete Poem Not on the Lips Up and Over Blood Hyphen Work and Word Clear and Copious Applause Read Me All the Books School of Practical Dissection In Pleading In Boyce There's a Whale Aground at Wijk aan Zee There's a Rooster Aboard the Battleship Rosemary Lamb The Lesser Gods of Earth The Minotaur The Tortoise The Hummingbird The Raccoon Pearls Before Swine Filler Material The House with Two Front Doors Operation Daily Bread Robert Frost Embarks on Goodwilll Tour of Soviet Republics Ars Apologia My Hero House on Fire: McLean, Virginia The Caravan Soak the Bloke Note on Spurious Sources Fixing Miss Becky's Bottom Cadaver in a Landscape The Sunbath Cold Nest Nothing Else Jonah's Gourd Goat Shack Nig