True North

Stephanie Strickland

Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry

The poems in this collection explore wayfinding, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. Strickland leads her reader from Eden to Atoms in an exploration of American history, encompassing both writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country’s first mathematical physicist.

“In these poems specialized vocabularies-drawn from science, linguistics, history, mathematics-move in and out of each other in a radical remaking of language. The volume is a tour de force, and exhilarating to read.”-The Women’s Review of Books

Reviews

“In these poems specialized vocabularies-drawn from science, linguistics, history, mathematics-move in and out of each other in a radical remaking of language. The volume is a tour de force, and exhilarating to read.” -The Women’s Review of Books