Smaller Than Death (Full-Color Edition)

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Theodore Worozbyt's book "Smaller Than Death" won the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and features original artwork by painter Cheryl McClure. "Image" magazine compares Worozbyt to "a Zen archer, as skillful as he is serene. In language precise and apparently effortless, at once conversational and elegant, his poems offer meditative exercises that ebb and flow with an organic rhythm, by turns placid and stormy. Worozbyt is a master of mood. Line by line, stillness deepens, or a sense of threat builds. He writes of family, place, season, of lives lived between two cultures, and with an ear for the beauties manifest in the idiomatic rhythms of common speech. He possesses a keen, unsentimental sense of the past, documenting both its ugliness and its beauty with deftness and care. With respect to the dead, his poems sometimes approach magic realism in their literal sense of a world beyond-or you could call it faith."

Theodore Worozbyt
Recipient of grants from the NEA and the Alabama and Georgia Arts councils, Worozbyt holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in literature from the University of Alabama. He is currently an associate professor of English at Georgia Perimeter College. His first collection "The Dauber Wings" (Dream Horse Press) won the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and his second book "Letters of Transit" (University of Massachusetts Press) won the 2007 Juniper Prize. His work has appeared in Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, Crazyhorse, The Iowa Review, and others. "Smaller Than Death" won the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize.