Beasts of the Hill

Winner of the 2011 FIELD Poetry Prize. ¿Like the seventeenth-century Dutch painters who divided the space of their framed canvases into repeated geometries of rectangles and squares and light, Mark Neely writes poems that play four-square with poetry¿and with the heart. And like those Dutch interiors, his poems are at once intimate and timeless.¿ ¿Angie Estes