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Tomorrow's Living Room: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award) (English and English Edition) [Hardcover]

Jason Whitmarsh (Author)


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June 15, 2009 Swenson Poetry Award
Volume 13 in the Swenson Award Series, Tomorrow's Living Room offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's world reflect our own (they may in fact be universal), but we're considering them through completely new terms of engagement.

Selected by, and with a foreword by, Billy Collins.

The annual Swenson competition, named for May Swenson, honors her as one of America’s most provocative and vital writers. In John Hollander’s words, she was “one of our few unquestionably major poets.”

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With so many poets working the American idiom these days, it is a wonder to find one with an original voice, but Jason Whitmarsh has carved out a verbal territory for himself unlike anyone else's. It is the kind of voice that whistles for our attention.   —Billy Collins

About the Author

Jason Whitmarsh received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Washington. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Harvard Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Verse, and The Yale Review. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children. Tomorrow’s Living Room is his first book.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 19 and up
  • Hardcover: 78 pages
  • Publisher: Utah State University Press; First Edition, 1st Edition edition (June 15, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0874217466
  • ISBN-13: 978-0874217469
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,860,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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