Radio, Radio Poems

Louisiana State University Press Hardcover, copyright 2001 - with 71 pgs. Winner of the 2000 Walt Witman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Doyle's poems leap freely from sonnet to fragment to sestina to prose, searching for what they do not know. These are lyrics of a scintillant mind working at its farthest reaches. Alternately playful, grim, veritable, surreal, tempered, associative, wise, and astonished. A native Cuba, New York, Ben Doyle is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop.