Distant Mandate

A shimmering collection from a fascinating, formally engaged poet.

Ange Mlinko is the author of four previous books of poetry, including Shoulder Season, which was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award, and Starred Wire, a National Poetry Series pick and finalist for the James Laughlin Award. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism, and served as the poetry editor for The Nation. Her essays and reviews have been published in The Nation, the London Review of Books, Poetry, and Parnassus. Educated at St. John's College and Brown University, she has lived in Morocco and Lebanon, and is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Florida. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.