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-Hawkey will benefit from increased visibility as a Poetry Bus Tour participant -Extensive tour (he is taking the semester off from teaching in order to tour and support this book)

An edgy and ominous second collection from one of contemporary poetry's most promising new voices."The Book of Funnels is one of the strangest and most beautiful first books of poetry I have read in a long time."-John Ashbery Christian Hawkey constructs a visionary world rich with fantastic imagery. In blurring the line of reality versus imagination, this turbulent dreamscape calls into question the frightening and surprising nature of the actual world. Christian Hawkey's The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2004) received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Hawkey is co-founder of the international poetry journal jubilat, and he teaches at Pratt Institute.