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Winner of the 2002 Edges Poetry Prize: The Book I Never Read, Poems by Bobbi Lurie

Bobbi Lurie’s The Book I Never Read is the winner of the 2002 CustomWords Edges Prize. Lurie’s poems, understated and cool, are an ongoing conversation between the interior self and the external world. She charts human relationships and perception through a variety of shorter and longer forms, and in so doing opens up a reflective world into which the reader may gaze and find emotional connections.

Samples of Bobbi Lurie's poems

"Bobbi Lurie’s poems live in that delicious middle between fantasy and reality, between movie images and the grocery store, between dinner party chitchat and solid tree bark. The Book I Never Read thrives in meticulous tension, as poems negotiate violence and parent/child relationships, global politics and Rocky Road ice cream. Lurie’s voice is undaunted by her oftentimes daunting subject matter.I bow to her fearless imagination.”—Denise Duhamel

Bobbi Lurie has worked as a visual artist and therapist. Her essays, short stories, and poems have been widely published in the U.S. and England. She lives in New Mexico with her family.

ISBN: 1-9322339-26-4, 120 pages, $16.00

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