About White's Re-Entry

Michael White’s poetry is unusual for its loving patience in imagining how human predicaments feel. Using a striking variety of measures, his meditations attempt to re-enact the grain of consciousness as it plays out, from elegy to simple joy.

“Michael White’s work does what all good poetry does: it presents the sun-drenched quotidiana of our lives, and lifts it all into the sacred space of poetry and memory. He delights us with his naming.” —Paul Mariani, judge and author of Deaths and Transfigurations

“Here is a book that explores the interplay between interior and exterior landscapes with such generous and beautifully crafted detail that readers will feel they are no longer reading these poems but living them.” —Kathryn Stripling Byer, 2005 Poet Laureate of North Carolina

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2005. The annual Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry is awarded to a previously unpublished collection of poetry. The winner receives $1,000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press.