Poetry. "The openness of this sequence is heartfelt and heartbreaking.... Morrison courts those regions of thinking and being that society instructs us to suppress or ignore; and she does so by declaring, 'Every object I am/is the rupturing it is built on.' At the same time, she writes, 'Pretend instead that words can make a humanness between us.' What started and moved this reader is the calm forceful music, its tonal shifts and use of different registers, with which Morrison proceeded, her willingness to 'plunge into the silence that most frightens us.'"—John Yau

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.