Yale series of younger poets #v. 109

Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel Elkins's poetry collection, Blue Yodel, is the 109th volume to be so honored. Esteemed poet and competition judge Carl Phillips praises Elkins for her "arresting use of persona," calling her poems "razor-edged in their intelligence, Southern Gothic in their sensibility."--Amazon.com

Blues for the Death of the Sun -- Goat Man -- Mississippi Pastoral -- River's Wife -- Girl with Antlers -- Adventures of the Double-Headed Girl -- Autobiography of Eve -- Winter Burial -- Coffin Bone -- Devil's Rope -- Baby Doll -- Tennessee Williams on Art and Sex -- Real Housewives -- Monogamy -- Lighthouse Keeper -- Tornado -- Aiming a Shotgun at the Sky -- Hour of the Wolf -- Reverse: A Lynching -- Crying Wolf -- Mississippi Delta: Glass in the Field -- War Mask -- Thou Shalt Not -- Call of the Wild -- Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory -- Going to the Movies Alone -- On Leaving the Boy in the Battlefield -- Ghost at My Door -- Hunter's Moon -- Long Hungry Road -- Sailmaker's Palm