Blind Date With Cavafy

Steve Fellner's debut book of poems, Blind Date with Cavafy, was the winner of the 2006 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. It was selected by Denise Duhamel. In selecting this book for the prize, Duhamel wrote, Blind Date with Cavafy serves up hilarious pathos and devastating humor. Bleak, deadpan, enthusiastic, earnest: Steve Fellner's book is all of these things, something all of things in one poem, sometimes all of these things in one line.