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Poetry. "Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had a son named Geoffrey Nutter?...The poet's world is his imagination, and his imagination is a world that includes all the places he has been to, as well as those he has never laid eyes on...The best way to proceed with this book is to open to anywhere and begin. I did and I got lost, which is where we have been all along"--John Yau. "I know of no contemporary poet who writes with, and from, a state of such genuine wonder, who so marvels at the word's capacity to grieve, ruminate, extol, and create"--Mark Levine. WATER'S LEAVES & OTHER POEMS is the winner of the 2004 Verse Prize.