Series: APR/Honickman First Book Prize

Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown. Bright Shade is an appreciation of the wild woods, the rolling hills, the Appalachian air, and the little rivers that were the setting of Chelsea Harlan's upbringing. The poems speak through the liminal space between the body and its relationships to other bodies, and the human relationship...