Poetry. Winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award. In the aftermath of her father's death, the speaker of Rusty Morrison's exquisitely formed poems takes a step-by-step accounting of her transformation as she reconciles herself to loss. This book-length sequence is the silvery underside of elegy, a lyric of living acceptance paced with "the linen texture of right silences." "Rusty Morrison's THE TRUE KEEPS CALM BIDING ITS STORY brilliantly restores the energy of telegraphic communication, launching line after line toward a potentially infinite horizon of meaning. Her careful handling of form allows knowing to remain both openly discrete and discretely open. This is a joyous read and a remarkable book"—Peter Gizzi.

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.

Reviews and Other Links
http://www.thediagram.com/9_3/rev_morrison.html
http://tiny.cc/GENTLYREAD825
http://bostonreview.net/BR33.6/porte.php
http://lunapoetry.blogspot.com/2008/07/motion-in-true-keeps-calm-biding-its_22.html
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