WINNER OF THE CONTEMPORARY POETRY SERIES

 Meticulous and haunted, these poems live in a world only partly ours—one that overlaps into others where mirrors line the throats of birds and bees are baked into cakes. It’s often evening here; we’re often in a garden; we’re often wandering. Stonecipher’s precise language is both pensive and uncannily present, her images both seductive and oddly settling. She has achieved a beautiful truce among the most difficult emotions without compromising a thing. —Cole Swensen