Peculiar Motions Sleeping with the Dictionary won the Forward Prize for

won the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2017

These are her alphabetical diaries

De escaperoom is vanwege corona gesloten

of life inside the porous walls of occupation—no ordinary grief

Peculiar Motions Sleeping with the Dictionary won the Forward Prize forRosmarie Waldrop, drawings by Jennifer Macdonald Rosmarie Waldrop's poetry draws on the languages of geographical terrain, national histories, painting, music, the body, and the self. Her compositions change from book to book as from day to day. The peculiar motions of the title, are those of an "I" and an "eye," of a poet and a visual artist in dialogue. They define the "self" as "peculiar motions in the head and between the head and throat," a