Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry) Patricia Highsmith explores the woods with her

explores the woods with her students

their mother begins thinking up ways to keep them at home

Written in a circuitous style that keeps you guessing until the end

evidence-based counterarguments to the “clobber verses” often used to condemn queerness

and European colonial domination

Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry) Patricia Highsmith explores the woods with herShirley Temple tap dancing at the Kiwanis Club, Stevie Nicks glaring at Lindsey Buckingham during a live version of Silver Springs, Frank Ocean lyrics staking new territory on the page: this is a taste of the cultural landscape sampled in Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era. Chad Bennett casually combines icons of the way we live nowGIFs, smartphones, YouTubewith a classical lovers lament. The result is certainly a deeply personal account