My Life in Heaven [Paperback]

My Life in Heaven, the 2012 FIELD Poetry Prize winner, is striking in its subtlety, complexity, and utterly distinctive voice, according to the prize judges David Young and David Walker. These moment-to-moment explorations of intimacys intricacies use the power of the poetic line to illuminate the relationship of self to the beloved, nature, and the divine. This is a book of love poems, romancing the line between self and other. My Life in Heaven will stun readers who admire the best of contemporary American poetry in the vein of Donald Revell, Brenda Hillman, Charles Wright, and Jean Valentine. Samyns poems sing with the elusive fire of Emily Dickinson.

MARY ANN SAMYN is the author of four previous full-length collections of poems: Captivity Narrative, Inside the Yellow Dress, Purr, and Beauty Breaks In. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America, an

THE MOON THROUGH A SKYLIGHT Lets Be Serious Now Just Say When At Glen Lake vs. The Birth of Anger Speaking of Ferocity at Sunset The Key is How The Moon Through a Skylight Shark Shark Shark, or Whatever It Is That You Want Next OCTOBERISH In Answer to Your Burning Question Im Telling You the Story of Right Now You Got Your Wish; I Got Mine Octoberish You Can Thank Me Later Happy Birthday, Everything! Tell Me Something Good Want and Need CUP AND STRING Flesh and Language Fascinated Is More Like It Take It Back Let Me Introduce You More Perfect I Know You Know Cup and String Please Do A LITTLE JANUARY This Is the Forrest; Do You Like It? True for Good A Little January A Painted Sun As a Consequence Technological In the Process of Making It Better Wouldnt It Be Dreamy? FAR AS I CAN SEE, NEAR AS I CAN TELL Far as I Can See, Near as I Can Tell Some Kind of Lifetime By the Way, Hello What Do You Mean What Do You Mean-? Stupidity, Crabbiness, Moorings & Love