Description: Winner of the 2005 Green Rose Prize, an annual prize awarded by the New Issues editors to an established poet.
Review Quotes: "How strange and hewn and scarified these poems are! In her drive to claim the singularity of her own singed (and searing) fables, Joan Houlihan has composed a brilliant 'black startlebox' of oddment and truths. The Mending Worm is a book of stunning accomplishment."-- "Lucie Brock-Broido"