Thrown Voice
Will be published approx. on 26. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-0-300-28506-2 (ISBN)
Description
The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice-once in the body, once in the world
Isabel Neal's prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central tensions between beauty and the unseen, contact and the mysterious, arrival and undoing. These are poems that are vocally sharp, strange, freely moving and then utterly still, both tender and forceful in their curiosity. Thrown Voice travels-along the poet's image worlds and beloved waterways-in utterly unexpected ways: "A thaw thunders loose / Just one mink darkens the ice / A live ampersand."
Isabel Neal's prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central tensions between beauty and the unseen, contact and the mysterious, arrival and undoing. These are poems that are vocally sharp, strange, freely moving and then utterly still, both tender and forceful in their curiosity. Thrown Voice travels-along the poet's image worlds and beloved waterways-in utterly unexpected ways: "A thaw thunders loose / Just one mink darkens the ice / A live ampersand."
Reviews / Votes
"Like no other book I've read by a young writer. She is interested in what the world is doing when we aren't there to see it. . . . One could picture Neal as a kind of minimalist troubadour poet-one whose beloved is the very land and water. A subtle eroticism is spread broadly but also thinly over the surface of the earth."-Rae Armantrout, from the ForewordMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
184 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-28506-2 (9780300285062)
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Persons
Isabel Neal teaches literature and creative writing in Maine. A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, she has received fellowships from Lighthouse Works, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.