Ed Pavlic's secon book of poems, Labors Lost Left Unfinished appeared in 2006 with Sheep Meadow Press. His other books are Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue, which won the American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Award in 2001, and his study of African American modernism, Crossroads Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). His forthcoming books are Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway, an epic poem centered on the life and music of the soul singer (University of Georgia Press, 2008), and a prose-poetic photo essay set on a dhow off the coast of Kenya, but here are small clear refractions.
— Adrienne Rich
