Selected by Jane Hirshfield from over six hundred manuscripts, is the winner of the tenth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Of , Hirshfield writes, "This book carries both startling imaginative freedoms and the impulsion of a person navigating the terrain of his life by means of the star-chart and sextant of poems––a winning combination, for me." is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He holds an MA and MFA from Indiana University. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.