Description
Stephen Dunn selected Glenn Freeman’s manuscript, Drinking with O’Hara, as the winner of the 2019 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Gunpowder Press released the book on March 1, 2020—just weeks before the pandemic.
This edition—Drinking with O’Hara: Another Round—gives these award-winning poems a well-deserved spotlight along with new poems and an introduction from the poet.
Praise for Drinking with O’Hara
It’s a hard thing, not knowing, and learning about the death and despair of those who were once close, once known, becoming a “caesura /in the shortened line /a breath /in the midst of /the ongoing world.” Here, subtle formal aspects catch us by surprise, elegiac lines situate us in and outside of time as these poems move easily from narrative to lyric meditations.
—Curtis Bauer, author of American Selfie
What amazing powers of attention to the natural world and human interaction alike, an attention that keeps on digging “to where the rhythm runs true.” In repetition and variation, in free and fixed forms, Freeman reminds us of the capacity of art to remain in dialog—with self, with others—to sustain intimacy and connection, especially in the most isolating moments.
—Mira Rosenthal, author of The Local World
Glenn Freeman is the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. He is the author of Fading Proofs (2006); Keeping the Tigers Behind Us (2007); and Traveling Light (2011). He has degrees from Goddard College, Vermont College, and the University of Florida. He teaches at Cornell College where he also founded and directed the MFA in Creative Writing.
