Running Away from Russia (Bordighera Poetry Prize, 3)

Poetry. Translated into the Italian by Luigi Fontanella. The winner of the Borgighera Poetry Prize, RUNNING AWAY FROM RUSSIA is "dense with complex imagery. The poet [makes] a raid upon the inarticulate. This poet knows what [she] is after. A passage in the first poem says 'Sometimes I think it's a race / between what I know / and what the poem can tell me.' That kind of self-consciousness runs through many of the poems, and it's a liberating quality, not an inhibiting one. There are superb transformational moments in this poetry"-W.S. Di Piero, comments from the Judge's Report.