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Selected by Mark Doty from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Melissa Stein''s debut Rough Honey is a startling, sensuous collection that examines the deep sources of art. These poems speak of fragility and power, the contradictions of pleasure, and the bruises we bear. With remarkable range, they carry us from a whitewater rafting calamity to the torrents of wheat on a family farm; from a peepshow''s manageable storm of boredom and sex to a passionate fall from grace in an orchard. By turns buoyant and forlorn, Rough Honey''s characters both long for and abandon the hope of true connection, of home.

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Rough Honey Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize

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      Publisher: The American Poetry Review
      Publication Date: 18/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9780977639595, 978-0977639595
      ISBN10: 0977639592

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Selected by Mark Doty from over one thousand manuscripts for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Melissa Stein''s debut Rough Honey is a startling, sensuous collection that examines the deep sources of art. These poems speak of fragility and power, the contradictions of pleasure, and the bruises we bear. With remarkable range, they carry us from a whitewater rafting calamity to the torrents of wheat on a family farm; from a peepshow''s manageable storm of boredom and sex to a passionate fall from grace in an orchard. By turns buoyant and forlorn, Rough Honey''s characters both long for and abandon the hope of true connection, of home.

      From Want Me:

      Lemons crystallized in sugar, glistening
      on a blue-glazed plate. The rarest volume
      bound in blood leather. A silk carpet
      woven so finely you can''t push a needle through,
      that from one edge is the silver of a leaf

      underwater, and from the other bleu lumiere,
      first frost o

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