Lung Hours by Jessica Purdy is now available. Co-winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize, published by Gunpowder Press. The Dryden-Vreeland Prize recognizes K-12 educators who find the time to create their own poetry as they inspire future writers. Congratulations, Jessica!
“Collected here are poems that at once delight us with surprises of language, of line, of sentence, of syntax and then suddenly stop us with the cold breath of haunted spaces and the poltergeist of memory. And yet there is, as the title suggests, ever a space to dream, to breathe, to love, and to repair the reaving of each day. I’ve long been a fan of Purdy’s work and Lung Hours may be my favorite book of hers so far.”
—Matt Miller, author of Tender the River (Texas A&M University Press)
