The Body's Response To Famine

Poetry. Winner of the 1999 Transcontinental Poetry Award for an outstanding first book-length collection of poetry or prose, this debut by Kansas-born poet Dana Curtis describes adventures of the body in tones both tender and macabre. (She's a swimmer and her body thrashes,/ delicate and white. Beneath the bridge,/ red with sky, how bitter she must/ taste.) Gone. (Undone) Rikki Ducornet has written, A poet of an urgent seeing, Dana Curtis articulates extremity, and this with exceptional ferocity, delicacy and power. If her book were a garden, it would be a place of black ice and live water.