To a Distant Country by David Gorin
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Selected and Introduced by Jennifer Chang
"With quiet majesty, these poems create worlds out of small gestures, stories shared among friends and strangers, foreign cities and small American towns, moons, offices, snow, war, salt, and all the silences in between. It’s in these silences—vast, enigmatic, thrilling—that Gorin forms an intimacy with his reader, where we share in a kind of experience that we hope for most from reading poems."
—Jennifer Chang, from her introduction
David Gorin is a poet, critic, and educator. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Believer, Boston Review, Best American Experimental Poetry, and elsewhere. His work received the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell and Millay Arts. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA, MA, and MPhil in English Literature from Yale University. In recent years, he has taught creative writing and literature at the Pratt Institute, Deep Springs College, Eastern Correctional Facility (via the Bard Prison Initiative), and Yale. He curates the WAVEMACHINE poetry and performance series in San Francisco, California and is coeditor of The Constant Critic at Fence.
Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group. The cover's marbled paper design is by Stephen Pittelkow.
