Antiquity

Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry

by Michael Homolka

Introduction by Mary Ruefle

Published by: Sarabande Books

Imprint: Sarabande Books

64 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in

Paperback
9781941411278
Published: July 2016

$14.95

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Description
Contents
Authors
Praise

1
Goshen
Ode on Quote How to Live
Antiquity
Anamnesis
Circumstances
Retreat

2
Out at the Mall
Listen Up Medusa
Riposte to Ode
Personal Narrative
Broken Home
Endurance
Frame
Phenomenon
Restoration
Unjustified Mood on a Monday Evening

3
Ruins
Modern Sensibility
East
Villa View Drive
West
Artifact
Transients
History Moves in Waves
A History of Art
Emanation
Men on the Road

Michael Homolka’s poems have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Boulevard, Parnassus, and The Threepenny Review. A graduate of Bennington College’s MFA program, he lives in New York City and currently teaches high school English through the NYC Teaching Fellows program.

Mary Ruefle is the author of eleven poetry collections and two books of prose. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, along with an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Whiting Writers' Award. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, The Next American Essay, and elsewhere. She has taught at Vermont College and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.
Mary Ruefle is the author of Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and include the publication of A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

"It’s a quick spin through Homolka’s spare, sculpted lines from the collection of Jews’ permits to the six-day war to “emaciated lovers” receiving stars from the backs of chariots. Clearly, history, and particularly Jewish history, will be the topic of this Kathryn A. Morton Prize winner, and clearly the language will be punchy and irreverent…. VERDICT: Refreshing, energetic work; many readers will enjoy."
—Library Journal, "Summer Poetry: 13 Smart New Collections from Debut and Veteran Authors Alike"

"Homolka’s alluring debut seamlessly tiles scenes of past and present to create a mosaic that is constantly conscious of the inescapability of time…. Aware that he is presenting perennial human questions in new imagery, Homolka lets his metaphors do the work so that the craft, not cleverness, shines through."
—Publishers Weekly

“Though timeless in its associations...this is a collection infused with the cyclical nature, and often unbearable passage, of time and an unflinching awareness of the horrors human beings can visit upon each other.... Thoughtful, piercing, and sometimes startling in its darker moments, this collection echoes long.”
—Booklist

"It’s a quick spin through Homolka’s spare, sculpted lines from the collection of Jews’ permits to the six-day war to “emaciated lovers” receiving stars from the backs of chariots. Clearly, history, and particularly Jewish history, will be the topic of this Kathryn A. Morton Prize winner, and clearly the language will be punchy and irreverent…. VERDICT: Refreshing, energetic work; many readers will enjoy."
—Library Journal, "Summer Poetry: 13 Smart New Collections from Debut and Veteran Authors Alike"

"Homolka’s alluring debut seamlessly tiles scenes of past and present to create a mosaic that is constantly conscious of the inescapability of time…. Aware that he is presenting perennial human questions in new imagery, Homolka lets his metaphors do the work so that the craft, not cleverness, shines through."
—Publishers Weekly

“Though timeless in its associations...this is a collection infused with the cyclical nature, and often unbearable passage, of time and an unflinching awareness of the horrors human beings can visit upon each other.... Thoughtful, piercing, and sometimes startling in its darker moments, this collection echoes long.”
—Booklist

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