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    The Lesser Fields
    The Lesser Fields
    The Lesser Fields
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    The Lesser Fields

    By Rob Schlegel

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    Winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry
    Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
    Release dateOct 26, 2009
    ISBN9781885635136
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      The Lesser Fields - Rob Schlegel

      THE LESSER FIELDS

      The Colorado Prize for Poetry

      Strike Anywhere

      Dean Young

      selected by Charles Simic, 1995

      Summer Mystagogia

      Bruce Beasley

      selected by Charles Wright, 1996

      The Thicket Daybreak

      Catherine Webster

      selected by Jane Miller, 1997

      Palma Cathedral

      Michael White

      selected by Mark Strand, 1998

      Popular Music

      Stephen Burt

      selected by Jorie Graham, 1999

      Design

      Sally Keith

      selected by Allen Grossman, 2000

      A Summer Evening

      Geoffrey Nutter

      selected by Jorie Graham, 2001

      Chemical Wedding

      Robyn Ewing

      selected by Fanny Howe, 2002

      Goldbeater’s Skin

      G. C. Waldrep

      selected by Donald Revell, 2003

      Whethering

      Rusty Morrison

      selected by Forrest Gander, 2004

      Frayed escort

      Karen Garthe

      selected by Cal Bedient, 2005

      Carrier Wave

      Jaswinder Bolina

      selected by Lyn Hejinian, 2006

      Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems

      Craig Morgan Teicher

      selected by Paul Hoover, 2007

      One Sun Storm

      Endi Bogue Hartigan

      selected by Martha Ronk, 2008

      The Lesser Fields

      Rob Schlegel

      selected by James Longenbach, 2009

      THE LESSER FIELDS

      ROB SCHLEGEL

      Copyright © 2009 by Rob Schlegel.

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