Antiquity

Sarabande Books
Michael Homolka, introduction by Mary Ruefle
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"The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."--Mary Ruefle, from the introduction Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka's Antiquity offers the present infused with the past, from Ancient Greece to the Holocaust to contemporary battlefields. A haunting and evocative debut. Michael Homolka lives and works in New York City. Homolka's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

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Michael Homolka’s debut collection, Antiquity, won the 2015 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Boulevard, Antioch Review, Agni, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily. A graduate of Bennington College’s MFA program, he currently lives in Spain and New York with his family.