Privacy Issues
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Austin Alexis
Winner of the 2014 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
“Austin Alexis’s poems sweep, scan, record, zoom up and identify our crazy nowadays ways. Subtle or hidden, no contemporary vein, behavior or eternal verity escapes the range of this splendid poet’s lyric GPS (gentle satellite positioning). And yet—whether sketching or drawing ‘the latest tragedy / in high definition / just like you want it,’ the weak look of a duck at the Gulf oil spill, or Central Park’s ‘feminine lagoons’ and ‘masculine streams’ —hand and heart connect. In a real-time world, where the cost for reflection or grief runs high, Privacy Issues works. With this striking debut collection, Austin Alexis, a caring poet of many appetites and moods, spirit-dances us back to the hereand-now and the timeless human need to overcome and celebrate.”
—Al Young, California’s Poet Laureate Emeritus
“Choreographer of the ephemeral, Austin Alexis leaps directly into a ‘world / from which anguish can communicate.’ He does so because he must. Indeed, urgency propels these poems. But he also constructs a tensile language—muscular and delicate, metaphoric and synaesthetic —allowing him a full range of expression. With his humanity as our guide, we peer unflinchingly at the madness of the world. This ballet master of words shows us ‘muscles flexing in search of a voice.’ Thanks to Alexis, we have found it.”
— Dean Kostos, author of Rivering
“Austin Alexis creates legend out of the ordinary and domesticates the fiercely strange in this long-anticipated first collection, Privacy issues.”
—Kathy Fagan, author of Lip
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Naomi Long Madgett Award
Accepting award entries between January 2 and March 1, 2022.
Guidelines for the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award