Michael Lasorsa Steffen / Paolo Ruffilli
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
BORDIGHERA POETRY PRIZE • 11sponsored byTHE SOnIA RAIZISS-GIOP CHARITABlE FOunDATIOnThe poems of Heart Murmur are richly talky and utterly authentic, one momentwry and self-deprecating and the next astonishingly open-hearted.����I honor thisbook for its celebration of our foolish hopes, our crazed and enlivening appetites.- Nancy EimersHeart Murmer is an electric storm of language running a gauntlet of feeling fromgrief to gallows humor that left me astonished. Steffen burns the solipsistic personalat the stake. - Roger WeingartenSteffen scrupulously avoids flamboyance, the sort of surface dazzle we find inpoems that, like the stereotypical Chinese meal, are immediately appealing butleave us hungry instants later. His plain style approach allows his insights, as itwere, to sneak up on us . . . until we discover ourselves (how did it happen?) ina world so full of pathos that we catch our breaths. - Sydney Lea