FREE RADICALS: AMERICAN POETS
BEFORE THEIR FIRST BOOKS

"These are accomplished, strange and turbulent poems by
writers we are happy to have caught up with somewhere
in the middle of their development, but before their emergence
is universally acknowledged."--Jordan Davis, Editor's Introduction

"In the field of physics, free radicals are unstable molecules
containing odd numbers of electrons and tending toward violent
and unpredictable chemical reactions. ... In the field of poetry,
instability can often yield truer work than facility can."
--Sarah Manguso, Editor's Introduction

Seventeen American poets writing before the publication
of their first books: B.J. Atwood-Fukuda, Jim Behrle,
Carson Cistulli, Chris O. Cook, Del Ray Cross, Katie Degentesh,
Tonya Foster, Alan Gilbert, Greta Goetz, Johannes Göransson,
Tim Griffin, Jennifer L. Knox, Tanya Larkin, Amy Lingafelter,
Jeni Olin, Michael Savitz, Max Winter.

Edited by poets and poetry critics Jordan Davis
(Million Poems Journal; The Constant Critic )
and Sarah Manguso ( The Captain Lands in Paradise; The Believer).

Edited by Jordan Davis and Sarah Manguso
Publication Date: May 15, 2004
Price: $14, Subpress
Pages: 160
ISBN: 1-930068-23-9
Distributor: SPD