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Winner
of the University of Wales 2010 Dylan Thomas Prize
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Winner
of the 2009
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
First
Book Prize,
Selected by D.A. Powell
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Winner
of the 2010 Texas Institute of Letters Bob Bush
Memorial Award for First Book of Poetry
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“From the
smoldering wreckage of a
battle-scarred Iraq to ‘the last unmuzzled throatful of
air,’ Elyse Fenton’s debut collection clamors with
such
exigency that it drops us right into the danger zone. Her art is
precise, persistent and volatile . . . .”
—D. A.
Powell
“. . . In
keeping with the best traditions of war poetry, the underlying subjects
of Clamor
are love and loss. Clamor
is a book that refuses to
turn
away.”
—Brian
Turner
“. . .
[T]hese poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. . . . If
every poem is indeed a love poem, Clamor
is indeed a debut worth
reading and about which we must make noise.”
—Jericho
Brown
“The
astonishing paradox of Elyse Fenton’s Clamor
lies in its raw,
disturbing subject matter: the Iraq war, the body’s
destruction,
desolation, and grief, set against an achingly beautiful love poetry. .
. . Fenton deftly and unabashedly tells a story of passion and doubt,
of the terrible waiting and an otherworldly reunion, what we are
capable of doing to and for each other, and what we do to
endure.”
—Dorianne
Laux
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