Family System

Winner of the 2012 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Elizabeth Willis

""Family System "is one of the most specific and clarifying books of poetry I ve ever read. It is filled with choices made, to be made, not made handled with a poetic understanding that what seems arbitrary will be inevitable when said with the right words while singing the right songs. This is a stand-out first book, introducing a first-rate original talent, doing powerful work, making quintessentially lyrical choices. Don t miss this book.

Dara Wier

It seems that Jack Christian s brain is able to produce tiny lucid creatures, have them run and sprinkle over a map of an unknown world with joy, speed and delight. Even stranger, he s somehow the spiritual offspring of very different ancestors: Pascal s Esprit de Geometrie and Scandinavian mythology. I was eulogizing a squirrel in a shoebox. Brilliant.

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