What We Push Against by Alison Roh Park

Selected and introduced by Joy Harjo

In Park’s city human songs document the current drag of history. . . .These poems make an honest and compelling testimony to the push of the human spirit in a city, within a city, within a city, within. 

—Joy Harjo

Edition: 500 Copies of the winning books were printed by Westcan Printing Group and designed by Gabriele Wilson, with covers by Laura Louise Greaves.