Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.
Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn Emanuel Winner of the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award The elegies in Temper interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture.
