num_pages: 112
description: Winner of the 2002 Colorado Prize for PoetryPublished by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University"These poems are unconventional, deep, independent, un-American, all-American, hip, tragic, observant, skitterish, critical, political, crushed, brushed, funny. It is the range of motion and emotion in them that makes them matter."—Fanny Howe, author of Forged, Q, One Crossed Out, O'Clock, and Nod"Chemical Wedding is a startling debut collection. Wild and wonderfully unpredictable in its motions of mind, in its curiosities, and in the wide-ranging array of its experiences, it is differently wild in its voicing and formal strategies. It is rare to find a first book so mature and yet so sturdily and willfully original."—Jorie Graham, author of Never, Swarm, and The Dream of the Unified Field
language: English
title: Chemical Wedding
titlecomplete: Chemical Wedding (Colorado Prize for Poetry)
ratings_count: 1
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Colorado Prize for Poetry
publisher: Center for Literary Publishing