The Goodbye Town: Volume 26 (Field Poetry) - Softcover

Timothy O'Keefe was awarded the 2010 FIELD Poetry Prize for THE GOODBYE TOWN, described by Editor David Walker as a complex and multilayered collection, deeply intelligent and humane, beautifully balanced in its sly wit and elegant lyricism.... He has a fresh and distinctive voice. This is O'Keefe's first book.

TIMOTHY O'KEEFE received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Utah. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, Pleiades, and elsewhere. He has been awarded scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Tin House Writer's Workshop. In 2008, Heather McHugh selected a group of his poems for the Academy of American Poets Levis Prize.