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A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer. It‿s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber‿sleeps from which most, but not all, awaken. Those who do wake live in fear of the next mist, and the next, each a little longer and more dangerous than the last. Alternating between the perspectives of a kleptomaniac waitress named Cora and her nine-year-old friend Glass, Sleepaway de...

Long-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for How He Loved Them (2018)Poems and prior collections recognized by The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, The Poetry Society of America, and The Academy of American PoetsLannan Foundation FellowThemes of death and grief are universal and his poetry, while profound, is written in language that is easy to access and comprehendWinner of the Julie Suk Award for How He Loved Them (2018)  Potential a...

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The latest collection from an award-winning poet about the complications of romantic, familial, and patriotic love

A reissuing of The Finger Bone, poems by Kevin Prufer

These elegiac poems trace the toll war takes on America while hoping for the future

Churches is a book about the way we create our knowledge of the divine, of mortality and of the past through story

On the brink of World War I, Germany was often depicted by Allied propagandists as an evil puppet master manipulating the Ottoman Empire. Behind closed doors, however, the Ottomans worked hard to exploit their alliance with Germany as a means of reviving the empire's former strength and glory.

A collection of poems by Kevin Prufer.

The poems in National Anthem, the fourth collection of poetry from critically-acclaimed poet and critic Kevin Prufer, are finely-studied short films about America in the 21st century. Set in an apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic world that is disturbing because it is uncannily familiar, National Anthem chronicles the aftermath of the failure of imperial vision. Allowing Rome and America to bleed into one another, Prufer masterfully weaves the th...

Strange Wood, the recipient of the 1997 Winthrop University Poetry Series Award, contains verse remarkable for its fearless insight. The first poems in this lush, lyrical collection are populated with infants and adolescents, while the middle section gives way to bewildered, misguided adults, who are futilely attempting to understand and conquer the myriad difficulties of modern life. The last poems are concerned with deaths -- in the family, ...