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(Walt) McDonald, this annual invitation-only first-book prize awards publication annually to exceptional previously unpublished poets.
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A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees
Poems
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781682831960
Pub Date: January 2024
Through a fictional extinction of bees, explores the interconnectedness between human and non-human species through the lens of language
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards
Poems
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
Poems
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781682831397
Pub Date: August 2022
A meditation on grief, death, and distance.
Lena
Poems
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
Poems
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
Poems
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
Poems
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
Poems
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
Poems
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
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.
A Dream in Which I Am Playing with Bees
Poems
Price: $22.95
ISBN: 9781682831960
Pub Date: January 2024
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards
Poems
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 9781682831502
Pub Date: August 2022
Your Blue and the Quiet Lament
Poems
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781682831397
Pub Date: August 2022
Lena
Poems
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 9781682831496
Pub Date: May 2022
The Lyme Letters
Poems
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781682830758
Pub Date: January 2021
Prospect
Poems
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781682830369
Pub Date: January 2019
Service
Poems
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 9780896729209
Pub Date: March 2015
Tour of the Breath Gallery
Poems
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780896727946
Pub Date: April 2013
Horse and Rider
Poems
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 9780896727854
Pub Date: February 2013
Skin
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9780896726604
Pub Date: January 2013