Ohio Violence (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry)
"Alison Stine writes, 'Believe me.' I am telling you a story,' and the story she tells us we believe as it unfolds. The poems are moving - beautiful, tragic, death-haunted, and uncanny - like old folk songs and murder ballads - lovely on the tongue, heavy on the heart. As a narrator, Stine does not and will not swerve when faced with the brutal, the adamantine and the ordinary damage that equals a life." - Eric Pankey, judge and author of Reliquaries"