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\u201cMy choice for the award is Doe<\/em>\u2014that book is so good, so well executed with such difficult subject matter. I admire its active courage, its commitment to witnessing what so many reject. It stayed with me through reading all the others\u2014fantastic books, the lot of them. But Doe<\/em> is a game changer, a silence eliminator.\u201d
\n\u2014Allison Joseph, 2016 Akron Poetry Prize judge<\/strong><\/p>\n

In selecting Doe<\/em>, [for the Eugene Paul Nassar Award] judge Naomi Guttman wrote: My choice for the 2018 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize is Aim\u00e9e Baker\u2019s Doe, published by The University of Akron Press. A terrible beauty is born in this book-length elegy for female victims of kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder; the presumed dead, the disappeared, and the unidentified. These last, for whom the book is named, remind us of women\u2019s universal vulnerability as the hunted gender. In language both violent and tender, the book exhumes the cases of women from across the continent and the century, bearing witness to their spirits, prayers, and passions. Doe is a suite of gorgeously orchestrated poems that remind us not to turn away from the news. Instead, it commands us to resist injustice with the compassion that only art can bring to life. I wholly admire this haunting, stunning, and necessary book, and I endorse it with no reservations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doe<\/em> began as Baker\u2019s attempt to understand and process the news coverage of a single unidentified woman whose body was thrown from a car leaving Phoenix, Arizona. It soon grew into a seven-year-long project with the goal to document, mourn, and witness the stories of missing and unidentified women in the United States.<\/p>\n

About the author<\/h3>\n
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Aim\u00e9e Baker is a multi-genre writer with work appearing in\u00a0The Southern Review<\/em>,\u00a0Gulf Coast<\/em>,\u00a0Guernica<\/em>,\u00a0The Massachusetts Review<\/em>, and others. In 2014, she was awarded the Zoland Poetry Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Baker received her MFA from Arizona State University. She currently lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughter and teaches as a lecturer at SUNY Plattsburgh, where she also serves as fiction editor for\u00a0Saranac Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Listen to a conversation with Aim\u00e9e Baker about\u00a0Doe.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Bind-https:\/\/www.thebind.net\/blog\/baker-doe<\/a><\/p>\n

North County Public Radio – https:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/38596\/20190506\/books-poet-aimee-baker-s-doe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Aim\u00e9e Baker<\/h3>\n

Pages: 89<\/p>\n

Size: 6 x 9<\/p>\n

Eugene Paul Nassar Award<\/p>\n

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