The Seed Thieves [signed] [first edition]

Poetry. Robert Fanning is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, the Atlanta Review, and several other journals. His chapbook Old Bright Wheel was the winner of the Ledge Press Chapbook Award. "Robert Fanning's poems originate from some uncanny place between a fevered imagination and a keen intellect. They are musical, dangerous poems-both sparing and wild. This poet searches for language and meaning in a mysterious world. What the poems offer, instead, is more mystery"-Laura Kasischke. "Passionate and accomplished-this poet's ear is beautifully tuned-THE SEED THIEVES is an urgent, nervous, tender, and brilliant first book. Read it for joy!"-Thomas Lux. "Tonight, my satellite,/boot up, log on, give me long, slow/sentences. Lean out your window, describe/your present world. Decipher every bright thing/across the immediate sky, over the currents/and moonlit contours of your country"-from the book.