What the Critics Say

Winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series. The talismanic haunts the domestic in Kevin Prufer's Strange Wood. I find myself surprised at each turning. These poems are seductive, ominous, moving, at times funny, at times riddling, casting always forth beyon the known. —Eric Pankey In poems remarkable for their unflinching wisdom, for a maturity of vision too rarely seen in a first book, Kevin Prufer reminds of of that space beyond lullaby, of the fragility of life in a world where "everything's // the chance for flying / failing somehow," and of loss as inevitable, hardest truth of all — how "the body blooms, unfolding, / then is gone." —Carl Phillips