{"title":"Miller Williams Poetry Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover powerful and moving verses with the Miller Williams Poetry Prize collection. Showcasing contemporary voices and diverse perspectives, these award-winning poets offer profound reflections on life, love, and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"trouble-with-light-book-jeremy-michael-clark-9781682262498","title":"The Trouble with Light","description":"In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical poems. “Like you,” he writes, “I have . . . [a] history of \/ hardly caring for my body, of letting \/ whoever drink their share of me, \/ thinking it could cure \/ my fear of dirt.” Whether ruminating on intimacy, lineage, identity, faith, or addiction, Clark’s poems embody a restless, rigorous curiosity. Largely set in the poet’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his portraits of interiority gracefully juxtapose the sorrows of alienation and self-neglect with the restorative power of human connection. In one of the most affectionate—and characteristically ambivalent—poems in the collection, Clark recalls, “For days, doubt struck as does lightning \/ across the span of night. . . . Love? If it exists, \/ it’s the uncertainty one feels before a thunderclap, \/ after the sky’s gone dark again.” A vulnerable and transporting debut, The Trouble with Light is a vital record of how grief can endure, and how we can yet endure ourselves.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748218511633,"sku":"NGR9781682262498","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51045678219537,"sku":"NIN9781682262498","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262499.jpg?v=1763221701"},{"product_id":"architect-book-alison-thumel-9781682262481","title":"Architect","description":"“When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life,” writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect. In this debut collection, the buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright become a blueprint for elegy, as Thumel overlays the language of architecture with the language of grief to raze and reconstruct memories, metaphors, and myths. With obsessive and exacting focus, the poet leads us through room after room in a search to answer whether it is possible to rebuild in the wake of loss. Meanwhile, the midwestern landscape beyond these rooms—the same landscape that infuses the low, horizontal forms of Wright’s Prairie Style buildings—shapes the figures in Architect as well as their fates: “For years after my brother’s death, I collected news articles on people who died young and tragically in landlocked states. Prairie Style deaths—boys sucked down into grain silos or swept up by tornadoes or fallen through a frozen pond. The boys I didn’t know, but the landscape I did. The dread of it. How many miles you can look ahead. For how long you see what is coming.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748221427985,"sku":"NGR9781682262481","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50925702316305,"sku":"CIN1682262480VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51046060556561,"sku":"NIN9781682262481","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262480.jpg?v=1763482439"},{"product_id":"self-mythology-book-saba-keramati-9781682262528","title":"Self-Mythology","description":"In the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense of otherness? This question dwells at the center of Saba Keramati’s Self-Mythology, which explores multiraciality and the legacy of exile alongside the poet’s uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran. Keramati navigates her ancestral past while asking what language and poetry can offer to those who exist on the margins of contemporary society. Constantly scanning her world for some likeness that would help her feel less of an outsider, the poet writes, “You could cut me in half. Send the left side with my mother, \/ right with my father. Shape what’s missing out of clay \/\/ from their lands and still I would not belong.” Blending the personal and the political, Self-Mythology considers the futurity of diaspora in America while revealing its possibilities.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748223951121,"sku":"NGR9781682262528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51045748670737,"sku":"NIN9781682262528","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262529.jpg?v=1763476959"},{"product_id":"wager-book-adele-elise-williams-9781682262535","title":"Wager","description":"Wager, Adele Elise Williams’s raucous debut, celebrates the fearlessness and determination that can be wrested from strife. Early on, Williams confronts multiple challenges, both personal and communal, including persistent childhood anxieties and stunning neighborhood tragedies (“Ray down the street hung \/ himself like just-bought bananas needing time”). In the working-class communities she moves among, the poet tangles with her perceived failures as a wayward daughter, recovering addict, and skeptical scholar as she buries friends and lovers along the way. Self-possession is so hard-won in the southern gothic world of Williams’s poems, no wonder the speaker here is so roaringly audacious while often taking relish in getting close to the edge: “Sometimes God says YAHTZEE and I know this means \/ someone has won but someone has lost too — a holy man \/ is a gambling man, and that God of ours, \/ he takes bets after all.” Through it all, Williams pays homage to her lineage of resilient “beast women” and defiantly resists any constraint as she prods her own limits.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748226244881,"sku":"NGR9781682262535","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51109994266897,"sku":"NIN9781682262535","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815614050577,"sku":"CIN1682262537G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262537.jpg?v=1763474176"},{"product_id":"red-ocher-book-jessica-poli-9781682262290","title":"Red Ocher","description":"In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that “there will be room for desire \/ again, even after it leaves \/ like a flood receding, \/ the damaged farmhouses \/ and washed-away bridges \/ lying scattered the next day \/ amid silt and debris.” Throughout, Poli’s poems hold space for the sacred—finding it in woods overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads, and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author’s physical and emotional landscapes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50145410318609,"sku":"CIN1682262294G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50630733299985,"sku":"NGR9781682262290","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51046431654161,"sku":"NIN9781682262290","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51302604833041,"sku":"CIN1682262294VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262294.jpg?v=1750961023"},{"product_id":"ya-te-veo-book-p-scott-cunningham-9781682260562","title":"Ya Te Veo","description":"Ya Te Veo takes as its title the name of a mythical tree that eats people. Like the branches of that tree, the poems in this book seem to capture and nourish themselves on a diverse cast of would-be passers-by, drawing their life-force from the resulting synthesis of characters. Among the seized are poets and painters alongside musicians from Garth Brooks to Wu-Tang Clan to the composer Morton Feldman, whose mysterious personality serves as a backdrop in many poems for meditations on intimacy, ethics, and anxiety.  As the phrase “ya te veo” (“I see you”) implies, this is a book interested in revealing what we think is hidden, in questioning the gap inside all of us, a gap between what we feel and what we say and do, making space for our many contradictions.  Like the works of Feldman, these poems focus and recede, experimenting with form in order to accomplish a state of deep concentration. They impersonate sonnets, ghazals, terza rima, monologues, translations, and freestyles, but inexactly, embracing failed imitation as an opportunity to remix the familiar.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50167585177873,"sku":"CIN1682260569G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682260569.jpg?v=1763480394"},{"product_id":"i-was-waiting-to-see-what-you-would-do-first-book-angie-mazakis-9781682261347","title":"I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First","description":"Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize   In the same way that the speaker in these poems often seems itinerant, lacking a place or person to call home, the poems themselves have their own roaming quality. The reader is moved somewhere unexpected, the poems seem to shapeshift or suddenly beckon from somewhere else, or they may zoom into focus. Like a succession of Russian dolls, the poems open toward and magnify the concealed, removed, or forgotten. Throughout, whether from cosmic or microscopic perspective, the details here are handled tenderly, and these poems, even with their constant sense of mobility, return to and are anchored by the familiarly human.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50325950857489,"sku":"CIN1682261344VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51046209421585,"sku":"NIN9781682261347","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682261344.jpg?v=1750721903"},{"product_id":"unmanly-grief-book-jess-williard-9781682260937","title":"Unmanly Grief","description":"The men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard’s Unmanly Grief perform their masculinity in a variety of ways: boxing, theater, brotherhood, labor, and familial and romantic love. Marked by a sharp nostalgia, Williard’s poems move from Wisconsin to New York City and back, tracing the geographic movement of the speaker and his family: a teenage sister who disappears and returns, changed irrevocably; an older brother dismantled in adulthood; an ever-sacrificing father. Woven through the musculature of this varied and exciting collection, music appears as readily in dexterous formal verse as in lean, scrappy storytelling. What results is a crooning celebration of struggle and tenderness in this world, “where to be small and furious is enough.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50388819345681,"sku":"CIN1682260933VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682260933.jpg?v=1763479988"},{"product_id":"eternal-sentences-book-michael-mcgriff-9781682261620","title":"Eternal Sentences","description":"Winner, 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize   Michael McGriff’s Eternal Sentences bears witness to the world of gravel roads, working-class families, and geographic isolation in poems that illuminate both common occurrence and the territories of the surreal. Here, in rendering every line as a single sentence, McGriff depicts a world seen through fragments, quick leaps, and wild associations. Haunted as much by place and people, landscapes and distant figures, as by the possibilities of image-making itself, Eternal Sentences is a song for the hidden depots of rural America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50388859552017,"sku":"CIN168226162XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/168226162X.jpg?v=1758795033"},{"product_id":"i-o-book-madeleine-wattenberg-9781682261637","title":"I\/O","description":"Finalist for the 2021 Miller Williams Poetry Prize.  Madeleine Wattenberg’s debut collection I\/O alternates between epistolary poems to the mythical figure Io and lyrical interrogations of science, myth, and the historical record. Wattenberg casts Io—the priestess of Hera who was turned into a heifer—as a woman struggling to navigate the terrain between choice and coercion. Accompanying the letters to Io are poems whose explorations range from laboratories to airships in their pursuit of answers. Here the poetic imagination emerges as its own laboratory, drawing inspiration as much from ancient myth as from science and steampunk as it refuses to be constrained by a final conclusion.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50388867711249,"sku":"CIN1682261638VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400139510033,"sku":"CIN1682261638G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682261638.jpg?v=1763481367"},{"product_id":"to-be-named-something-else-book-shaina-phenix-9781682262283","title":"To Be Named Something Else","description":"To Be Named Something Else, winner of the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, is a high-spirited celebration of Black matriarchy and lineage—both familial and literary. Centering the coming-of-age of Black femmes in Harlem, Shaina Phenix’s debut collection, in the words of series judge Patricia Smith: “enlivens the everyday—the everyday miraculous, the everyday hallelujah, the numbing everyday love, the everyday risk of just being Black and living. There is absolutely nowhere these poems aren’t—we’re dancing and sweating through our clothes, terminating a pregnancy in a chilled room of white and silver, finally gettin’ those brows threaded and nails did, practicing gettin’ the Holy Ghost, sending folks to their rest, having babies, listening carefully to the lessons of elders, and sometimes even talking back. . . . To Be Named Something Else is a book of reason and reckoning, substance and shadow. It’s tender and wide-aloud and just about everything we need right now, when both reason and reckoning are in such woefully short supply.” Phenix’s full-throated poetry, with its “superlative combination of formalism and funk,” is assuredly something else.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50398590959889,"sku":"CINB0BNKF8WJ8G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50630733070609,"sku":"NGR9781682262283","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262286.jpg?v=1763480074"},{"product_id":"protection-spell-book-jennifer-givhan-9781682260289","title":"Protection Spell","description":"Finalist, 2017 Miller Williams Poetry Prize edited by Billy Collins","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400102121745,"sku":"CIN1682260283G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682260283.jpg?v=1763479053"},{"product_id":"walking-with-eve-in-the-loved-city-book-roy-bentley-9781682260579","title":"Walking with Eve in the Loved City","description":"Walking with Eve in the Loved City is an ambitious collection. Using a variety of male figures—Jeff Goldblum, Ringo Starr, the poet’s uncle Billy, to name a few—these poems skillfully interrogate masculinity and its cultural artifacts, searching for a way to reconcile reverence for the father figure with a crisis of faith about the world as run by men. And yet, despite the gravity of the subjects these poems engage, this is a hopeful, frequently funny book that encourages the reader to look deeply at the world, and then to laugh if she can.  Roy Bentley often accomplishes this work through a careful balancing of honesty and misdirection, as when in the poem Can’t Help Falling in Love the real drama of the narrative—the appearance of an affair between the speaker’s father and a drive-in restaurant carhop—operates as a backdrop for the eight-year-old speaker’s puerile attraction to the woman; or when the vampire Nosferatu (a frequent figure in the poems) materializes in a trailer park, his immortality becoming a lens through which to process the speaker’s righteous anger about wealth and poverty.  God too features prominently—as does doubt. Drawing from the vernacular of his childhood, Bentley accesses the simultaneous austerity and lyrical opulence of the King James Bible to invent stories in which the last note struck is often a call to pay kinder attention. More than anything, these poems serve as humanistic advocates, using the power of narrative—film, interview, imagination, memoir—to highlight how people matter.  Walking with Eve in the Loved City invites the reader to join in this watching and witnessing, to take part in renewing how we see.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400111001873,"sku":"CIN1682260577G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53370973258001,"sku":"CIN1682260577VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682260577.jpg?v=1763475364"},{"product_id":"spring-and-a-thousand-years-unabridged-book-judy-halebsky-9781682261330","title":"Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)","description":"Finalist, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize   Inspired by Matsuo Basho's writings and teachings on poetics and haiku, the interrelated lyric poems in Sky of Wu investigate work and marriage, the question of becoming a parent while watching a parent age into dementia, and the realities of wrestling with inequality, pollution, and habitat loss while navigating everyday life in Oakland, California. Simultaneously, they converse with Chinese poets from the eighth century and Japanese writers from the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. From these disparate sources, Halebsky weaves together small moments, stolen phrases, and images of beauty, allowing them to reveal their own sly humor and unvarnished truth.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50400128401681,"sku":"CIN1682261336VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815952970001,"sku":"CIN1682261336G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682261336.jpg?v=1752315249"},{"product_id":"daughter-of-man-book-l-j-sysko-9781682262306","title":"The Daughter of Man","description":"Follows its unorthodox heroine as she transforms from maiden to warrior - then to queen, maven, and crone - against the backdrop of suburban America from the 1980s to today. With uncommon force, The Daughter of Man confronts misogyny and violence, even as it bursts with nostalgia, lust, and poignant humour.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50630733332753,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50630737133841,"sku":"NGR9781682262306","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51744347586833,"sku":"CIN1682262308G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262308.jpg?v=1762596161"},{"product_id":"gut-book-j-bailey-hutchinson-9781682262023","title":"Gut","description":"Winner, 2022 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeJ. Bailey Hutchinson’s Gut is the dazzling debut of a born storyteller. In Hutchinson’s poems, which explore the substance of personal history, family attains the mysterious stature of folklore, while the vast worlds of nature and of the imagination abound with extraordinary creatures that likewise elude full understanding. For the voracious consciousness at work here, inheritance—what it means to be from a particular place and a particular people, no matter how one might strain against that—lies at the very heart of things.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51045415158033,"sku":"NIN9781682262023","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53240192172305,"sku":"CIN1682262022G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262022.jpg?v=1763472311"},{"product_id":"moon-news-book-craig-blais-9781682261613","title":"Moon News","description":"Finalist, 2021 Miller William Poetry Prize  Craig Blais’s Moon News deploys the sonnet form to treat subjects as diverse as Gregor Samsa, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the cosmos. Here the form’s capaciousness is engaged to full effect. Blais, who turned to the sonnet as a method for focusing on the present in the early days of his recovery from alcoholism, confronts personal demons, loss, and the possibility for healing in this remarkable second collection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51323370438929,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323372798225,"sku":"CIN1682261611VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682261611.jpg?v=1763478803"},{"product_id":"barley-child-book-greg-rappleye-9781682262696","title":"Barley Child","description":"Barley Child, Greg Rappleye’s fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives—recalled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a few odd photographs in which the human figures are often unnamed. The sum of these affidavits, arrayed across the lyric and narrative lines of these poems, is an electrifying human choir—male and female, child and adult, Irish and American—their voices rising out of shame, poverty, absurdity, violence, a strained Catholic faith, and a virulent legacy of madness and alcoholism.   Free of nostalgia and cant, with a sharp Irish wit that often braves nearly monstrous subject matter, and reported with eyes that seldom mist over, Barley Child is a volume that once again confirms Greg Rappleye as a poet of witness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51387952496913,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51387953250577,"sku":"NIN9781682262696","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51606399680785,"sku":"CIN1682262693G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52891047788817,"sku":"CIN1682262693LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262693.jpg?v=1750864573"},{"product_id":"true-mistakes-book-lena-moses-schmitt-9781682262702","title":"True Mistakes","description":"In her debut collection True Mistakes, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time.  As the poet goes about daily life—taking long walks, painting at her desk, going to work, grappling with the deaths of friends, struggling with anxiety and depression—she ruminates on the boundaries between art and reality, grief and joy, living and imagining. For Moses-Schmitt, thought, like painting, is relentlessly high-stakes: “I often think about things so hard \/ I kill them.” And: “Is it possible to paint myself so precisely \/ I disappear? Can I remember myself \/ so completely I’m erased?” In the context of such ruminations, the poet’s reflections on David Hockney’s seminal pool paintings shimmer with sublimity and insight.    Working to turn “mistakes”—misperceptions, errors in life and in art—into sites of possibility and imagination instead of failure or confusion, Moses-Schmitt offers “a truth for every reader,” writes series editor Patricia Smith.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51388209987857,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51388210348305,"sku":"NIN9781682262702","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262707.jpg?v=1763220056"},{"product_id":"short-history-of-monsters-book-jose-padua-9781682260944","title":"A Short History of Monsters","description":"Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in beat and slam traditions. In his first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares. Often brash and unruly, these poems range from recollections of lost, drunken days to unadorned manifestations of hope. Throughout, the speaker redefines his relationship to pop culture, praising it, skewering it, and mourning it by turns.  The poems that make up A Short History of Monsters tend toward both dark humor and epiphany, diving deeply into their own despair and rising up again with existential absurdity. This is a poetry that gets down into the grit and grime of the real world, digging out a space to experience being alive as miraculous in and of itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51612577890577,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51612578021649,"sku":"CIN1682260941G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52815203860753,"sku":"CIN1682260941VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682260941.jpg?v=1763478649"},{"product_id":"parallax-book-julia-kolchinsky-9781682262689","title":"Parallax","description":"Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence, Kolchinsky struggles to process the war unfolding far away, on the same soil where so many of her ancestors perished during the Holocaust.   Anchored by a series of poems that look to the moon, this collection explores displaced perspectives and turns to the celestial to offer meditations on how elements formed in distant stars account for so much of our human DNA. In these poems, writes series editor Patricia Smith, Kolchinsky “clutches at a feeling of home that is both unfamiliar and deeply treasured, longs for all that was left behind, struggles to come to terms with the rampant violence devastating a landscape that still, in so many encouraging and heartbreaking ways, belongs to her.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51678586470673,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51678586732817,"sku":"NIN9781682262689","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53152963461393,"sku":"CIN1682262685VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262685.jpg?v=1763482024"},{"product_id":"to-let-the-sun-book-john-allen-taylor-9781682262719","title":"To Let the Sun","description":"Finalist, 2 25 Miller Williams Poetry Prize John Allen Taylor's debut poetry collection To Let the Sun opens with an invitation both generous and resolute: \"take a walk with me . . . I hope you'll come \/ though I am going anyway.\"  These poems peel back the layers of recovery as an adult from childhood sexual abuse, the myriad ways a body can change to protect itself from memory, and the difficulty of looking at abuse head-on. Taylor uses a poetics of reclamation to write the child-self from a perspective beyond trauma, to document the messiness of survival, the child's flight from himself, and the uncertain path home - to a life filled with small and perfect things. Through hermit crabs and golden pothos, fungal gnats and beet seed, the speaker reclaims himself: 'I am not lost . . . I know memory \/ is not healed by time, but \/ by the oddities \/ with which we adorn our lives, \/ the fragilities we need to know \/ we're needed by.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51678587060497,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51678587289873,"sku":"NIN9781682262719","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52891047067921,"sku":"CIN1682262715LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1682262715.jpg?v=1763475671"},{"product_id":"domestica-book-samuel-piccone-9781682262849","title":"Domestica","description":"Samuel Piccone's Domestica firmly plants its feet at the fraught intersection of inheritance and the escape from it. Across these interrogative poems, the routines of marriage, parenthood, and faith reside in a place where \"every garden is erased \/ by the thrum of impermanence.\" If \"silence is the earth's way of embracing us \/ in whatever loneliness we think we deserve,\" Piccone seeks whatever answers are held in the deepest recesses of that silence. At once aphoristic and vulnerable, these poems insist that \"the stars are there to ache us into asking whatever we haven't \/ brought ourselves to ask.\" To startle us into paying attention to the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53090162835729,"sku":"NGR9781682262849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53592983077137,"sku":"NIN9781682262849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781682262849.jpg?v=1770123063"},{"product_id":"rogue-astronaut-book-mitchell-jacobs-9781682262863","title":"Rogue Astronaut","description":"At the core of Rogue Astronaut, Mitchell Jacobs's debut poetry collection, is a mystery: Was the poet's father abducted by aliens as a teenager? From this uncanny family lore spins a gravitational field of theory, grief, and imagination, spurring speculations about the extraterrestrial as well as the terrestrial question of familial bonds: What are the limits of understanding between two alien anatomies, between two unlike minds? Are we, after all, finally alone?   In poems that continually veer from play to reverence, from body horror to bodily delight, encounters with bed bugs and cuttlefish appear side by side with retro gaming and phantom light. A brother living with delusions turns toward the sky. The poet also peers skyward in search of connection—across family lines, across the body's borders, across galaxies. Outer space becomes a metaphorical terrain where queer desire and spiritual longing collide. Just as Agent Mulder's iconic X-Files poster declares \"I WANT TO BELIEVE,\" so do these poems ache to trust in something more—extraterrestrial life, divine presence, intimacy.   Jacobs's electrifying collection offers readers a singular voice attuned to the strangeness of living now—where science fiction and memory, tenderness and dissociation, belief and doubt pulse in tangled orbit. With wit, vision, and formal inventiveness, Rogue Astronaut charts a course through the mysterious and the intimate, inviting us to imagine new ways of connecting across distance, time, and the alien terrain of self.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53090163523857,"sku":"NGR9781682262863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53138303123729,"sku":"NIN9781682262863","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781682262863.jpg?v=1776333735"},{"product_id":"paper-pistol-book-raphael-jenkins-9781682262856","title":"Paper Pistol","description":"Finalist, 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize   Following in the footsteps of poets like Hanif Abdurraqib, John Murillo, and Robert Hayden, Raphael Jenkins's Paper Pistolconsiders tenderness, heteronormativity, male friendship, grief, and the various violences implemented by and against Black men. Channeling a multitude of speakers, this collection explores Black fatherhood and \"the totems we bequeath\" to our young, whom the \"hunter . . . see[s as] a field of bucks instead of a \/ field of boys. What marred your vision \u0026amp; made us look so killable?\" With humor and vivid imagery, Paper Pistol ultimately champions familial care and poetry as the ultimate weaponry, even in the wake of generational violence. \"If a pistol were made of paper,\" the poet dreams. \"If a piece \/ of paper were capable of killing. If a peace. If peace \/ were possible.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53201115185425,"sku":"NGR9781682262856","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53268824359185,"sku":"NIN9781682262856","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781682262856.jpg?v=1772629001"},{"product_id":"weather-inside-book-stevie-edwards-9781682262870","title":"Weather Inside","description":"Finalist, 2026 Miller Williams Poetry Prize   In The Weather Inside, Stevie Edwards measures the emotional atmosphere of a mind navigating bipolar disorder, complex PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, and alcoholism while forging intimacy and creative resilience in a rapidly declining world.   Both as someone who has struggled with mental health and as a feminist approaching middle age, Edwards interrogates parenthood and marriage: What forms of nurturing survive when traditional roles and certainties do not? Can bringing children into a collapsing world still be an act of hope? When your partner does not want children, where should you divert your surfeit of love? The poet grieves, \"I am chanting the name of a daughter \/ my husband doesn't want \/ enough, the child I've spent years \/ not being sure I deserved.\"   This fiercely honest and intimate collection offers a vision of adulthood shaped by the capacity to inhabit an embattled inner world. With clarity and dark wit, Edwards probes the uneasy border between solitude and connection, asserting the relationship between caring for oneself and caring for the wider world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53201116234001,"sku":"NGR9781682262870","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53238918807825,"sku":"NIN9781682262870","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781682262870.jpg?v=1772629007"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/miller-williams-poetry-prize-buchreihe.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}