This collection of poems by Jordan Smith is the first winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.

Liam Rector says, "Jordan Smith has written some of the most important poetry of the post-Vietnam generation. His melancholic portraits of Upstate life are comparable to what's most poignant in Thomas Hardy, Edvard Munch, and Ingmar Bergman. There's a moral seriousness, a wry Yankee humor, and a heartbreaking strength of sentiment at work in Smith's poems. They partake of a Shaker aesthetic: useful, beautiful."