Annal:2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

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Results of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

The Brass Girl Brouhaha

Adrian Blevins

Of this book, the poet Linda Gregerson has written, “Sex is in here. Mortality too, with all the incremental wounds to self-love and to dignity that sex and mortality entail. And motherhood, square root of all the rest, is here, so stripped of every piety it steams. And spooling through this gorgeous, brassy brouhaha, the freshest poetic line that America has produced in thirty years.

I don’t know where she got it except from the gods and from plenty of god-inspired hard work, but Adrian Blevins’ perfect gift for timing is plain magic on the page. [She] has…

 
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