Translation

Wick First Book

by Matthew Minicucci

"Winner of the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize"--Cover.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2015

About the author

Matthew Minicucci is the award-winning author of three collections of poetry. His fourth, Dual will be published by Acre Books on October 15th, 2023. His poems and essays have appeared in journals including APR, The Believer, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, POETRY, and The Southern Review. His work has garnered numerous accolades including the Stafford/Hall Oregon Book Award and the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, along with fellowships from organizations including the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Dartmouth College, the National Parks Service, and the James Merrill House, among others. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Blount Scholars Program at the University of Alabama.

Reviews

[Lynnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classically-inspired, evocative of the sound of a Southern drawl. Poems about mothers, things that fly, and shed bronze armor. It’s always hard to leave reviews for poetry; it’s probably best just to say that I liked it, though there was nothing in it that made me bleed.

[Ashley Booth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm biased of course, knowing Matt. But I feel like I can be fairly even given how different our aesthetics are. But I loved this book. And I just recommended it to someone who was having trouble structuring their own book.

And one of the poems made me cry. And that almost never happens. So that's something.