Crab OrcharD Series In Poetry FIRST BOOK AWARD Soluble Fish Poems by Mary Jo Firth Gillett “Mary Jo Firth Gillett is an audacious writer who swerves between outrageous wit and linguistic abandon. Her insatiable imagination absorbs Pavlov, insect love, potatoes, Newtonian physics and a paper-thin hibiscus, and this symphony of odd relations existing within and between her poems serves to enlarge our vision, our capacity for sympathy, while producing a rather pleasant form of vertigo. Gillett’s juxtapositions delight the senses and intellect simultaneously, making a beeline for the heart of the matter through their vivid attentiveness to the materiality of everyday and not-soeveryday experience.”—Phillis Levin, author of Mercury 64 pages, ISBN 0-8093-2773-2 978-0-8093-2773-7 $14.95 paper
2006 Winner
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