Poetry. A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by C.D. Wright. This visionary seventh collection by the PEN USA Award-winning poet pivots around uncertainties, mysteries, and the unexpected to find the language of the mind's theater. Melancholy and playful, analytic and lyrical, VERTIGO immerses the reader in a dense realm of memory and multiple perspectives, repositioning our relations to daily life, the past, and the future. "VERTIGO is as beckoning as it is unsettling. And vice versa"--C.D. Wright.

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Martha Ronk is the author of eight books, most recently Why/Why Not (University of California Press, 2003); IN A LANDSCAPE OF HAVING TO REPEAT, (Omnidawn, 2004), a PEN USA best poetry book; and VERTIGO (Coffee House Press, 2007), a National Poetry Series selection. She is also the author of Glass Grapes and Other Stories (BOA Editions, 2008) and teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

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