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Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek’s work: “Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold."

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Title Page
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  1. CONTENTS
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Foreword by Alice Quinn
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  1. ONE
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Speakmaple
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  1. Foreword
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  1. A Mouthful of Crickets
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  1. Colphon
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  1. A Bear in His Madness
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  1. Part 1
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  1. Happy
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  1. Chapter 1
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  1. Within Within
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  1. Chapter 2
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  1. Winnowing
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  1. Chapter 3
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  1. Neck of the Woods
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  1. Chapter 4
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  1. Dreamer in Winter
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  1. Chapter 5
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  1. Donnybrook
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  1. Vows of Babel
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  1. Stormdweller
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  1. Chapter 8
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  1. Toyhouse
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  1. Chapter 9
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  1. Grackles
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  1. Chapter 10
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  1. Silence Journal
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  1. Chapter 11
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  1. During Fever
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  1. Chapter 12
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  1. Blood Realm
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  1. Chapter 13
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  1. TWO
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  1. Chapter 14
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  1. Genius of Frogs
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  1. Chapter 15
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  1. Hibernacula
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  1. Chapter 16
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  1. Outside the Horse
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  1. Part 2
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  1. Prayer for Fall
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  1. Chapter 17
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  1. Thieves
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  1. Chapter 18
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  1. Dust Merchant
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  1. Chapter 19
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  1. Raker
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  1. Chapter 20
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  1. Sycamore
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  1. Chapter 21
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  1. Rainlegs
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  1. Chapter 22
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  1. Book of Letters Reversed
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  1. Chapter 23
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  1. Ten Cents Worth of Fog
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  1. Chapter 24
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  1. North of North
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  1. Chapter 25
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  1. Fishkill
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  1. Chapter 26
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  1. Primer
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  1. Chapter 27
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  1. Radio
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  1. Chapter 28
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  1. THREE
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  1. Chapter 29
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  1. Helmet in the Glade
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  1. Chapter 30
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  1. Foglifter
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  1. Chapter 31
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  1. Where Your Victory
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  1. Part 3
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  1. Nightyard
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  1. Chapter 32
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  1. First Lady
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  1. Chapter 33
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  1. Cathode
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  1. Chapter 34
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  1. Host
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  1. Chapter 35
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  1. Neck of the World
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  1. Chapter 36
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  1. Hooded Merganser
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  1. Chapter 37
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  1. Bait
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  1. Chapter 38
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  1. Tickets for a Fire
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  1. Chapter 39
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  1. Returning the Ghost
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  1. Chapter 40
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  1. Crested Daughter
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  1. Chapter 41
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  1. Decomp
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  1. Chapter 42
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  1. Mane and Claw
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  1. Chapter 43
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  1. Human
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  1. Chapter 44
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  1. Astral
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  1. Chapter 45
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  1. Notes
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  1. Chapter 46
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  1. Chapter 47
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  1. Chapter 48
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  1. Notes
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  1. About the Author
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  1. The May Swenson Poetry Award
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