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New work from one of the brightest and most radical contemporary British poets.

Poetry that seeks to know the worlds we live in.

Awarded the 2000 Boston Review Poetry Prize.

Merrill Gilfillan is the author of five books of poems, Skyliner (Blue Wind), To Creature (Blue Wind, 1975), Light Years: Selected Early Work (1977, Blue Wind), River Through Rivertown (1982, The Figures), and Satin Street (1997, Moyer Bell). He is perhaps most well known for his books of prose essays that include Chokecherry Places: Essays from the High Plains (1998, Johnson Books), which won the Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, Grasshopper Falls (2000, Hanging Loose Press), and Magpie Rising (2000, Hard Press), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Gilfillan lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Agitation, determination, fierce confusion, and a pitch-perfect sense of humor all interact chemically in Waters.

"39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of childhood on satellite waves."

New poems from the award-winning author of Oubliette.