RICHARD KENNEY is the author of four previous books of poetry- The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River. His work has attracted recognitions, among them the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. He teaches at the University of Washington and lives with his family on the Olympic Peninsula.
Kenney's work is as alive and thrilling and fully human as anything I've read. It's the result of an extraordinarily curious mind and a world that is deeply felt-and it somehow includes us in that mind and in that experience. I read these poems and I see and think and (most astonishing of all) feel more acutely. -Jason Whitmarsh, Poetry Northwest