The Concerto Form

Poetry. Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. He is the author of the chapbooks 'Afield' (Ugly Duckling Presse) and 'Vocative' (Phylum Press), and his poems have appeared in various publications including Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, 26, and Volt. He currently lives in Nebraska with his wife and daughter. 'The Concerto Form' is his first full-length collection. "With THE CONCERTO FORM, Anthony Hawley joins that international company of exploratory poets who celebrate at once the fugitive music and the mysteries of the tangible world. With great formal range, he addresses the here/not here, the vibrating strings of things as they are. "All in the eye's reach," as he declares. And the ear's"--Michael Palmer.

Born in 1977, Anthony Hawley grew up in New England and was educated at Columbia University. 'The Concerto Form' is his first collection. He has a B.A. in Italian Literature, and has also translated the Italian poet, Andrea Zanzotto, He now teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is also one of the editors of the literary journal, 'FENCE." Ann Lauterbach said of this manuscript: "The poems in 'The Concerto Form' are made of close harmonies and intimate elisions as taut as the strings of a violin; their muted, contracted sonorities seem to vibrate with a desire to find solace in the grammar of perception...."