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Thrown Voice

By Isabel Neal
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
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The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice—once in the body, once in the world. Isabel Neal’s prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central tensions between beauty and the unseen, contact and the mysterious, arrival and undoing. Both... Read More
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The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice—once in the body, once in the world.

Isabel Neal’s prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central tensions between beauty and the unseen, contact and the mysterious, arrival and undoing. Both tender and forceful in their curiosity, these poems are vocally sharp, strange, freely moving and then utterly still. Thrown Voice travels along the poet’s image-worlds and beloved waterways in wholly unexpected ways: “A thaw thunders loose / Just one mink darkens the ice / A live ampersand.”

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300285062

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 May 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Rae Armantrout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 100

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Arts & Culture Isabel Neal Non-Fiction Poetry Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets

About the Author

Isabel Neal is a poet, writer, and teacher living in Maine. She is the recipient of fellowships from Lighthouse Works, the James Merrill House, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. This is her first collection. Rae Armantrout is the award-winning author of eighteen books of poetry, most recently Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble.

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