The Good News of the Ground by Heidi Johannesen Poon

Selected and introduced by Cole Swensen

There’s a tight core of sound that anchors The Good News of the Ground. We feel it as a long marrow, which is underscored by the shape of the opening poems: long plummets; you hear them whistle with an overtone, like a stone falling down a well, and know that gravity is at work here, the gravity of earthly concern.

—Cole Swensen

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