Of Odd Bloom Seen from Spac e, Teicher says, "In these poems, Welch is an attentive watcher who has 'lived most of my life alone.' From the little distance he cultivates, he manages a detailed view of the big picture. A PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah, he lives in Salt Lake City. He is the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem, and the editor of High Lonesome, a collection of essays on Charles Wright. Teicher writes of Giannelli's Tremulous Hinge, "This extraordinary and sobering debut begins with a literal stutter-'Since I couldn't say tomorrow / I said Wednesday.' In trade for this impediment, Adam Giannelli finds that, in poetry, what can't be said gives way to what must be said. Giannelli has found a new stopping place in his poems, tensed between mourning and tribute: he sees a beautiful waning world made beautiful by its fleetingness."Īdam Giannelli's poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Field, Yale Review, and elsewhere. This year's judge was Craig Morgan Teicher. The 2016 Iowa Poetry Prize is awarded to Adam Giannelli's Tremulous Hinge and Timothy Daniel Welch's Odd Bloom Seen from Space. I'm very excited to announce that my lover and life partner is the winner of the 2016 Iowa Poetry Prize. Welch’s point-of-view, however eccentric, is an altogether welcome one. Welch sees snowballs as “brief comets/ smoldering// at my feet” and hears “Owls and their Michael Jackson/ hooting in the trees.” His work is at once cubist and confessional, aching and wry. But this remove also bestows vision, one that often makes the mundane life events the book recounts wonderfully unfamiliar.
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Welch’s poems are about “skinny boys/ without a sense of butchery”-those for whom “honesty is a kind of/ solitude.” Such distance leaves his characters at the fringes of history, struggling to understand their place in it: “I don’t know/ how to collect each new// perspective,” Welch writes in the title poem, which opens with an astronaut’s description of the 9/11 attacks. Masculinity is a particular site of revision: the book begins with the loss of virginity rendered in Herculean terms-as a labor, even a slaughter, rather than a feat of bravura.
The props in question may be myth and memory, the book’s base elements, which Welch uses to tell new stories about intimacy and identity. “On what do we prop our lives and/ what if it can’t hold,” asks Welch in his tender, mysterious debut, a winner of the 2016 Iowa Poetry Prize. Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say: Timothy Daniel Welch's prize-winning Odd Bloom Seen from Spaceis now available!
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