Clumsy
Claire Bateman
1-930974-24-8
$14.00 Trade Paper

Look for Clumsy in the Spring of 2003

photo by Debbie R. Cooke

Claire Bateman is the author of three other collections of poetry: The Bicycle Slow Race (1991); Friction (1998); and At the Funeral of the Ether (1998). She has won the Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Writing Poetry Prize, a Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Robert Frost Fellowship, a Writing Teacher Portfolio Award from Scholastic Arts, and most recently, a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Praise for The Bicycle Slow Race

“Bateman is a poet who savors the real world, as well as the world we sense moving under it. She writes with clarity and power, and in these poems accomplishes what only the best poets ever attempt”—David Bottoms.