Ryan Vine • Distant Engines

• The Weldon Kees Award 2005 •

Ryan Vine's poems are precisely expressed and precisely envisioned. His ear and eye are first rate.  In addition, the poems are a pleasure to read, often a rarity these days. Distant Engines is a wonderful beginning.
   • Stephen Dobyns - Author of Best Words, Best Order

Ryan Vine has localized many of the distances our lives traverse; his words lead us back to an unfaced reality. To Ward, the poet's persona hero, these to-ward directions bear both in- and outward, confronting himself with himself. Readers will find their way in these arrivals.
   • Bill Knott - Author of Stigmata Errata Etcetera

These poems take us to a world unlike any other: a world of bonfires, kazoos, shortwave, and a tragi-comic character named Ward. Ryan Vine's work is lively, tough and wise, and Distant Engines marks the debut of an important poet.
   • John Skoyles - Author of The Situation

About the Author:

Ryan Vine's poems have appeared in the Sonora Review, Natural Bridge, Terminus Magazine, and The American Poetry Review. Garrison Keillor has twice read his work on The Writer's Almanac. He received his M.F.A. from Emerson College and is an Assistant Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota.