Poetry. African American Studies. Within the intimate, enlightened, and dazzling linguistic flights of these poem-letters, Mark McMorris engages a world that has experienced "continuous combat since Helen gave Paris a flower / at least since the Bronze Age of Agamemnon's armada." "McMorris is a poet utterly devoted to the sensual beauty of language and he crafts lines dense and strong enough to bear the crashing forces of history and identity contained within them...his work is wrenching, lovely, and powerfully seductive"--Poetry Project Newsletter.

Author Hometown: WASHINGTON, DC USA



About the author: Born in Jamaica, Mark McMorris has won the Contemporary Poetry Series prize and has been a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He teaches at Georgetown University where he directs the Lannan Literary Programs.