Finalist for the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award.
Best American Poetry 2003.
Pushcart Prize, 2002.
Kevin
Prufer's new poems spin us into bizarre, occasionally uncomfortable
recognitions. They do it through language so imaginitively brilliant
that even the ominous and sad are imbued with pleasure. I have not
encountered such an exciting book in years. —Susan Ludvigson
Even as
he makes strange a world grown too familiar, Prufer offers us a new
one, beautiful and dangerous, in a voice both original and haunting.
—The Antioch Review
The Finger Bone
is a challenging and provocative book by an exciting young writer who
speaks from — and to — the uncertainties of the
contemporary world.... These poems need to be writ large on the
American psyche. —The Georgia Review
Intellectually and imagistically complex.... The Finger Bone is a fascinating book by a poet already tuned to many of the salient issues emerging in the 21st century. —American Book Review
This book is a significant achievement. —Quarterly West
Radiant with the glow of the inner world of the imagination. —The Notre Dame Review
The Finger Bone is a must-read. —The Missouri Review
In a
time when contentions between "formalist" and "experimental: poetic
camps often seem irreconcilable, Kevin Prufer's work is a welcome that
praxis often cuts through the tangled arguments of theory. —Prairie Schooner
We are dazzled by his extraordinary versatility with language. —Electronic Poetry Review
A new
voice in our poetry, a voice that is quietly and darkly American,
funny, gothic, surreal, full of clear detail, impossible to
ignore. —National Poetry Review
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