[New-Poetry] James Laughlin Award

[Anny Ballardini]

*USTY MORRISON RECEIVES THE JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD

$5,000 FOR AN OUTSTANDING SECOND BOOK*

New York, September 18—The Academy of American Poets announced today that
Rusty Morrison's collection *the true keeps calm biding its story* (Ahsahta
Press) was chosen by poets Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, and Bruce Smith
to receive the 2008 James Laughlin
Award<http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/109?utm_source=pressrelease_091808&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=awards&utm_term=laughlin>,
which gives $5,000 to the most outstanding second book by an American poet
published in the previous year.

About the selection, Claudia Rankine says:

In Rusty Morrison's *the true calm keeps biding its story* the poem
transforms into a machine for transmitting lines across impossible
distances. These lines are formed by our most intimate self after the death
of someone close. Each poem, with its nine lines, as if to mock the lack of
nine lives, ends with the heartbreaking phrase "please advise." In the end
we, as readers, are left with a stunning collection, written into the
silence of everlasting loss.

http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/535



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Anny Ballardini
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