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Dust and Bread
Poetry
2008 Ohio Poet of the Year Award (Turning Point, 2008)
Dust and Bread by Stephen Haven is a book of many geographies. Its elegantly-crafted poems span the world from China to the ground right under our feet, and take the widest public and most intimately personal subjects as their focus. Unifying the diverse themes is a textured music that sings of the "pang of hunger in the belly of a mammal, sway of the living tree."
Mary Harwell Sayler
February 25, 2010
“Conventional wisdom in reading and writing contemporary poetry consistently encourages us to enter into the experience of a poem, so that’s what I aimed to do in reading Dust and Bread, the latest book of poetry by Stephen Haven, which drew me on several levels.”
Read More at rattle.comLuke Hankins
November 7, 2010
“Conventional wisdom in reading and writing contemporary poetry consistently encourages us to enter into the experience of a poem, so that’s what I aimed to do in reading Dust and Bread, the latest book of poetry by Stephen Haven, which drew me on several levels.”
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