The Birthday of the Dead and Stew Thornley clarity and calm that comes

clarity and calm that comes with knowing where you're going

author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings and Word Painting

brewed like storms

This unbound book is held inside a fine manuscript box

The Birthday of the Dead and Stew Thornley clarity and calm that comesWinner of the Fourth Annual Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize A deft reimagination of the fable, The Birthday of the Dead is dark, rich, and immediately accessible, capable of conjuring tears, laughs, and both earth shattering and life affirming revelations. Selected by Bob Hicok, The Birthday of the Dead won the fourth annual Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize. Debut collection of poems that is stark, bleak, funny, bizarre, lacerating,