Kelli Russell Agodon

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Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room

 Winner of the 15th Annual              White Pine Poetry Prize

 Chosen by Carl Dennis

“These are poems of remarkable liveliness.  In their wide-ranging wit and passion for language, their surprising juxtapositions of the ordinary and the exalted, and their willingness to foreground doubt in a search for meaning, they show a fellowship with the work of Dickinson that is deep without ever being solemn.  Here is a fresh, distinctive voice that is consistently engaging and surprising.”

  —Carl Dennis  

In Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, a most unexpected feat of poetic legerdemain, Kelli Russell Agodon composes on the high-wire of misprision and semantic accidents.  She is an aerialist hovering above language without a net, and is possibly the wittiest anagramist in recent memory (pray for poets becomes the story of paper).  All I can say is: reader, go with her shopping for coffins.  Go with her as she nails light to paper.  The rewards are many.

             —Carolyn Forché

Small Knots is a tender and terrifying collection of poems that maps illness, celebrates the family and life’s daily small joys, and meditates on what connects us to the world.