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“These poems are
heroic journeys across the dangerous territories of the spirit,
those landscapes of despair where all paths narrow toward death.
They do exactly what all good poems do, they point us toward the
mysteries, they teach us the right questions to ask. But more than
this, out of their darkest moments they wrench consoling insight and
illumination. I might even say joy. Always poignant and often
startling,
The Laughing Monkeys of Gravity
is a remarkable collection of poems, one to savor.”
–David Bottoms |
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Circumstance of the Porch |
| First Voices |
First Prize, The Greensboro Review, 1989 |
| The Settlement |
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| In the
World's Machine |
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| Oracles
of Lefts and Rights |
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| Three
Anatomists |
Second Prize, Robert Penn Warren, 1993 |
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“In
The Flagrant Dead, the reader will find
poems filled with rich, broad vocabularies,
fascinating details, engaging characters, energy and
breath, attention and focus, the struggles of divinity,
both dread and joyful reflections on the human among
space and history, motion and time. Stephen Bluestone's
voice is rapt, witty, questing, informed, his talent
reaching its zenith in this book.”
–Pattiann Rogers |
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| The Flagrant Dead |
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Torquemada to the Marranos |
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| The Rug Maker |
Thomas Merton Prize, 2004 |
| Wheels |
The Indiana Review, Honorable Mention, 2002 |
| The Crossing |
Third Prize, Lyric Recovery, 2004 |
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