The Next Country by Idra Novey
Winner of the 2005 Chapbook Fellowship
Selected and introduced by Carolyn Forché
Novey exhibits the gift of radical uncertainty while retaining an impersonal but compassionately subjective lyric voice. If there are personal disclosures in this work, however, they are subtle and oblique
—Carolyn Forché
Edition: 500 copies of the winning books were printed by the Prolific Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson.