"To See the Queen is a masterful book. Seay takes big risks—an extreme interiority, an unrelenting sadness, the complex and multifaceted uses of Liliana—and they pay off wonderfully. These are frightening, moving, deeply human poems—poems such as these are sorely needed."— J. G. McClue ,
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Allison Seay
Allison Seay is the author of To See the Queen, winner of the 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. She has published poems in Harvard Review, Mississippi Review, Poetry, and other journals, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ruth Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.Video Spotlight
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