Wesleyan Press Book Wins L.A. Times Award
Corrina Kerr<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/04/26/wesleyan-university-press-book-wins-la-times-award/"></div>"Practical Water" by poet Brenda Hillman was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on get_the_excerpt --><div class="at-below-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/04/26/wesleyan-university-press-book-wins-la-times-award/"></div><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt -->
Practical Water by poet Brenda Hillman was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. The theme of the collection is water, including “Taoist water, baptismal water, water from the muses’ fountains, the practical waters of hydrology from which we draw our being—and the stilled water in a glass in a Senate chamber.”
The competition’s judges state that Practical Water is Hillman’s “finest book,” in which “she creates an urgent new poetry for our moment.”
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Mike Mavredakis