How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye 2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book

2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalist 2018 Broken River Prize Finalist Praise for Topaz Winters

– Joy Sullivan

Blue Oyster Cult

we are alive

Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche - instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death - reminding us that they need not be one and the same

How to Maintain Eye Contact Phil Kaye 2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry BookRobert Wood Lynn, 2023 Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncertainty, interpersonal uncertainty and uncertainty at a larger scale. These narrative poems, influenced by storytelling traditions, find themselves at the nexus of the intimate and the humorous, as well as the absurd and the tragic. These poems examine isolation and grief in their many formsthrough heartbreak or the death of loved ones, or show us the world looking