Description: Poetry. "Andrew Allport's debut collection is a stunning and often heart-breaking accomplishment. From the wrenching series of elegies for his father to the more abstract and philosophical meditations on being and time, Andrew Allport makes certain we are always located in the actual and natural world. With a language both raw and elegant, with poems both dense and sublime, Andrew Allport shows us exactly how a Romantic poet writing in the 21st Century finds his way across historical and literary terrain so he might speak to us about our own troubled American moment."--David St. John
Brief description: Andrew Allport holds a Ph.D in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. He is the author of a chapbook, The Ice Ship & Other Vessels, which won the 2008 Proem Press award. His writing has appeared in numerous national journals, including The Antioch Review, Colorado Review, DENVER QUARTERLY and Boston Review, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Culver City, California.