Barbarian at the Gate by Xavier Cavazos

Selected and introduced by Thomas Sayers Ellis

In Barbarian at the Gate, Xavier Cavazos reads American culture and current American history like a Speak Written Walter Cronkite minus the CIA affiliation. Each poem is anchored in a sharp awareness that finds worth is real (not imagined) lives and real (not imagined) loss.

—Thomas Sayers Ellis

Edition: 500 Copies of the winning books were printed by Westcan Printing Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson, with art by Julianna Goodman.