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Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry

Named for its first poetry editor, TTU Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of English Walter Robert (Walt) McDonald, this annual invitation-only first-book prize awards publication annually to exceptional previously unpublished poets.

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The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards

The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards

Poems

by Rachel Mennies

Introduction by Robert A. Fink

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781682831502

Pub Date: August 2022

In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman’s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and...
Your Blue and the Quiet Lament

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament

Poems

by Lubna Safi

Foreword by Rachel Mennies

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9781682831397

Pub Date: August 2022

A meditation on grief, death, and distance.
Lena

Lena

Poems

by Cassie Pruyn

Foreword by Rachel Mennies

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781682831496

Pub Date: May 2022

Cassie Pruyn's Lena asks new questions: why we love, why we grieve. We've read elegies before, but not like this. A lush and unsparing first book, Lena asks readers to understand love--crucially,...
The Lyme Letters

The Lyme Letters

Poems

by C. R. Grimmer

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9781682830758

Pub Date: January 2021

The Lyme Letters, the twenty-seventh winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, is epistolary verse that spells out a memoir.
Prospect

Prospect

Poems

by Claire Sylvester Smith

Foreword by Rachel Mennies

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9781682830369

Pub Date: January 2019

Prospect comprises poems about vantage points, country and personhood, and the difficulty of understanding what is true. Through meticulously articulated explorations of knowledge, truth, language, and science’s explanatory power, Prospect propels us toward grasping even the metaphysical. Presented in four parts—Prospect, Country, Proof, and Studies on Anatomy and Mourning—Prospect offers a vision of life scaled as small as a cell and as large as a country, as bordered and un-bordered as a human body, and heightened by the tensions of all that cannot be known.
Service

Service

Poems

by Bruce Lack

Introduction by Robert A. Fink

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780896729209

Pub Date: March 2015

What Bruce Lack offers in the poems in Service is truth—complex, ambiguous, paradoxical, contradictory, impossible—about the experiences of a Marine fighting the Iraq War and the jarring transition...
Tour of the Breath Gallery

Tour of the Breath Gallery

Poems

by Sarah Pemberton Strong

Introduction by Robert A. Fink

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9780896727946

Pub Date: April 2013

In her first volume of poetry, novelist Sarah Strong celebrates silence and what can be learned when we wait and listen. In this stillness, she shows us, we may hear answers to questions we have learned...
Horse and Rider

Horse and Rider

Poems

by Melissa Range

Introduction by Robert A. Fink

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9780896727854

Pub Date: February 2013

Horse and Rider takes its title from a passage in the book of Exodus: “Sing unto the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has cast into the sea.” Melissa Range’s poems explore violence and power, particularly as those concepts relate to religion and to the natural world. Her mixture of free and formal verse is populated with warriors, weapons, animals, and figures from the Bible and mythology. In a galloping triptych of ancient and apocalyptic visions, these vigorous poems probe the recurring image of the horse and its sometimes troubled, sometimes loving relationship with its rider.
Skin

Skin

by April Lindner

Introduction by Robert A. Fink

Price: $16.95

ISBN: 9780896726604

Pub Date: January 2013

Walt McDonald First-Book award winner for 2002, now back in print in paperback, in time for publication of the author’s second novel, Catherine, in 2013.
Elsewhere

Elsewhere

Poems

by Kyoko Uchida

Introduction by Robert A. Fink

Price: $21.95

ISBN: 9780896727366

Pub Date: April 2012

In Elsewhere, Kyoko Uchida unravels the landscapes of childhood migrations and later passages across oceans and continents, seasons and languages—spoken or otherwise—mapping the geographies of longing, loss, grief, and conflict. These poems are preoccupied with itineraries and distance, while at the same time negotiating space at the intersection of shared fragilities and efforts to communicate. Imbued with an outsider’s need for precise definitions, they attempt to pare down to the essential core each place, each yearning and absence.
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