The Snowbound House

Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. "Shane Seely turns the earth over and over to find 'the rind of the world.' Two boys discover a bullet, a couple fight 'through a mouth of toothpaste,' a father gives his son a rifle. These are poems of filial complexity, meditations on death's cruelty and kindness, poems of amplitude and depth which ask us to live fully in 'the length of morning'"--Dorianne Laux, judge of the 2008 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.