The 2018 Believer Book Award for Poetry Goes to Catherine Barnett

The 2018 Believer Book Award in Poetry has been awarded to Catherine Barnett for Human Hours (Graywolf, 2018). Finalists were Monica Ferrell, Chelsey Minnis, Jamie Mortara, Ashley Toliver. As for Barnett's win, the editors write:

This is a book populated by the kind of subtleties that make desperation and anxiety all the more palpable. Catherine Barnett asks us to consider what time and mortality mean for those who are “alive, furiously” and yet “no hardier than flowers.” These poems offer the human tenderness and intimacy that are antidotes to the contemporary tendency to avoid vulnerability.

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