Chemical Wedding [Paperback]

Winner of the 2002 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Winner of the 2002 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

These poems are unconventional, deep, independent, un-American, all-American, hip, tragic, observant, skitterish, critical, political, crushed, brushed, funny. It is the range of motion and emotion in them that makes them matter.
—Fanny Howe, author ofForged, Q, One Crossed Out, O'Clock,andNod

Chemical Weddingis a startling debut collection. Wild and wonderfully unpredictable in its motions of mind, in its curiosities, and in the wide-ranging array of its experiences, it is differently wild in its voicing and formal strategies. It is rare to find a first book so mature and yet so sturdily and willfully original.
—Jorie Graham, author ofNever, Swarm,andThe Dream of the Unified Field

Robyn Ewingis a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. This is her first collection.