A Small Rising Up in the Lungs

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Jesse Lee Kercheval has selected A Small Rising Up in the Lungs, by Kit Frick of Brooklyn, New York, to receive the 2017 New American Poetry Prize. A MacDowell Colony fellow, Frick studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University.Sparked by a fascination with space and proximity, the four interwoven series in A Small Rising Up in the Lungs traverse literary topographies and human relationships to urge the speaker into physical and emotional proximity to the other, at distances sometimes close and others unreachable. The first full-length collection from Kit Frick, A Small Rising Up in the Lungs is an agile excavation, at once playful and pensive, inquest and act of empathy. From imagined landscapes and escape routes to the coal mines of western Pennsylvania, these poems construct a possible heritage through an exploration of the terrain we navigate—on foot and in our blood.