Neck of the World

Neck of the WorldNeck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rziczneks work: Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck

particularly Chinese history

he ran for vice president on the ticket with Henry Clay

although written over a period of about twenty-five years

This collection summarises current research on the effects of different management strategies on the physical

Fred and Albert

and employing a universal logic of designing tools

tightly controlled and invariably political

The ensuing riots

Incognita is a mysterious masked woman who meets with men in the dead of night

compelling account

Many derive from the superlative collections purchased by Enriqueta Rylands for the magnificent library she founded as a memorial to her husband John

the term gaslighting has become part of our everyday vocabulary