Poetry. Winner of the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry. "With trenchantpolitical and philosophical repercussions, Morrison's poems cut throughthe constraints of systematic thought to articulate gestural meanings,powerful rivulets of suggestion and sensibility that reopen the worldand wound of being"--Forrest Gander. "WHETHERING demands that itsreader wake into what are already only the traces of language's making.From its first page, this book variously implores and compels languageto move from desire to the real"--Elizabeth Robinson. "WHETHERING is whathappens when the sensual world interacts with the word, when knowledgebows gratefully to perception. Such a brief, rare, unexpected musicensues: "the artery / of a lark's cry"--Gillian Conoley.

Author City: RICHMOND, CA USA

Rusty Morrison is the author of multiple collections of poetry. THE TRUE KEEPS CALM BIDING ITS STORY (Ahsahta Press, 2008) was awarded the Poetry Society of America's DiCastagnola Award (chosen by Susan Howe), the Sawtooth Poetry Prize (chosen by Peter Gizzi) and was then selected by Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, and Bruce Smith for the Academy of American Poet's James Laughlin Award. Her previous book WHETHERING (Center for Literary Publishing, 2004) won the Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Forrest Gander. Most recently, she is the author of BOOK OF THE GIVEN (Noemi Press, 2011) and AFTER URGENCY (Tupelo Press, 2012). She lives in Richmond, California, and is Omnidawn's co-publisher.