Publisher Description

For thirty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.

The 2010 National Poetry Series Prize-winner, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky—author of Dancing in Odessa, recipient of the 2004 Whiting Award and the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and co-editor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry—Michael Vizsolyi's poetry is powerfully voiced, introspective, and surprising. In Kaminsky's words, Vizsolyi's verse "is erotic the way Catullus was erotic, and Mayakovsky. The voice is arrogant and tender, it goes 'on the nerve,' as Frank O'Hara told us the poet must."
 

Author Biography

M. A. Vizsolyi holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University and New York University, where he was a Starworks Fellow. He has taught poetry at New York University and to pedi-atric patients at the NYU Medical Center. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Margie, 6x6, Slice magazine, and Sixth Finch. He teaches skating and ice hockey in Central Park and lives in New York City with his wife, the poet Margarita Delcheva.

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