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Rayfish

By Mary Hickman
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By Mary Hickman
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Mary Hickman's James Laughlin Award–winning second book, Rayfish, masterfully adopts and synthesizes the genre conventions of lyric poetry, nonfiction, and criticism, and extends the possibilities of each. Drawing on her childhood in China and Taiwan and her experience as an assistant in open-heart surgery, Rayfish combines the urgency and vulnerability of the lyric with meditative autobiographical accounting and the voices of numerous artists (Francis Bacon, Eva Hesse, Chaim Soutine, Ida A...

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PoetryAmerican Poetry21st Century American PoetryAmerican poetry->Women authors->21st centuryAmerican poetry->21st century2011-2020->James Laughlin AwardPoetry AwardsJames Laughlin AwardPrevious James Laughlin Award Winners