Poetry. Winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award for an outstanding first book-length collection of poetry or prose. "Human physical traceries, voices, and stories haunt this book. The story of the soil alone gives these interwoven poems their essential reminders: we make our lives, if we are lucky, with perceptions that open us and are then folded, each into the next. Cycholl's vision is austere but vivid. Here is a world where roadmaps are alive; where ditches give birth to miniscule evolutions of the organic life-force; where golden birds' skyward passageways invite us to swift flight andblessed return"—Judith Vollmer.

Author City: HOMEWOOD, IL USA

Garin Cycholl's recent work has appeared in Admit2, Rain Taxi, EXQUISITE CORPSE, NEW AMERICAN WRITING, and Seven Corners. His books include HOSTILE WITNESS (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), RAFETOWN GEORGICS (Cracked Slab Books, 2008), and BLUE MOUND TO 161 (Pavement Saw Press, 2005). Since 2002, he has been a member of Chicago's Jimmy Wynn Fiction Collaborative. Cycholl currently teaches writing and literature as a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago.