Field Work - Softcover

Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize.

"In FIELD WORK, Sarah Estes accomplishes that remarkable trick the best poets have mastered: to fully embody and give voice to the notion of life as inconclusive and unsatisfying, and yet, to do so with poetry of doggedly fierce aliveness and beauty."—Kwame Dawes, author of DUPPY CONQUEROR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Copper Canyon Press, 2013)

"In FIELD WORK, Sarah Estes presents us with poems that are grounded in family and in place without being tethered or bound ... This is a book both disturbing and comforting, melancholy and full of beauty."—Ruth Foley, Managing Editor, Cider Press Review

Sarah Estes is a poet, essayist and science writer. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New Scientist, Christian Science Monitor, Agni, Cimarron, Cider Press Review, Crab Orchard Review, Drunken Boat, The Missouri Review, New Orleans Review, Plume, Salon, Slate, Southern Review and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Hive Bone, was published in 2013 with Finishing Line Press. She was a Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, and has a Master's degree in Religion and Culture from Harvard University. Sarah has taught poetry and composition at UVA and James Madison University, and has received grants and funding from Bread Loaf, UVA and the National Science Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.