“Winner of the Codhill Poetry Chapbook Prize for 2007, Michael Meyerhofer’s The Clay-Shaper’s Husband ponders the ruins of everyday struggle, excavating grandeur and sorrow with keen, audible presence.” — Pauline Uchmanowicz, final judge
Michael Meyerhofer’s first book, Leaving Iowa, won the Liam Rector First Book Award. He is also the author of four chapbooks and was recently the recipient of the James Wright Poetry Award, the Annie Finch Prize, and the Laureate Prize. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and others.
Table of Contents
The Clay–Shaper’s Husband
The Crayon Not Taken
Samsara
The Groundskeepers
Blue Collar Eulogy
Landmarks
Elegy for a Buried Poem
Limbic Self–Loathing, Post Emperor’s Chicken
Scatomancy
Anniversary
Timeline
Peccadillo
Hollywood Jack
My Friend and I Play the White Man’s Blues
The First Lady
Ode to Control–Z
On the Occasion of Two Poets Committing Suicide in the Same Month
