Underlife and Portico

Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Through his quietly profound verse, Michael Lynch catalogues the seemingly insignificant milestones in contemporary life, causing the reader to feel at once deeply flawed and lucky to be so. "Michael Lynch's poems are pure vision: language becoming image becoming language again. This is a book of poetry you'll return to as many times as God has names."—Rusty Barnes "These fresh, lively poems, with their playfully sexy turns of phrase ('beestung or g-strung') —surprisingly poignant (and poignantly surprising)—are a pleasure to read. Just look at 'Substantial Fascinators,' a wonderfully original love poem, where for a moment we can forgive even monsters when we remember that there was once a time when they too, like other people we loved, wore flowers in their hair."—Lloyd Schwartz