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Winner of the 2021 Halcyon Award from Middle Creek Publishing Praise for Breath on a Coal In Breath on a Coal , Anne Haven McDonnell writes of what is transient and enduring, with intense focus, lyrical precision, and emotional expanse, in poems that are grounded in landscape and 'inscape.' This is a marvelous debut. -Arthur Sze "Searingly honest, tenderly lyric, exactingly gorgeous. Reading Breath on a Coal , I feel the animal of my body "owling up" into awareness, I put my queer antlers on and wear them proudly, I know more deeply how we can be of a place even while admitting that we are "made of stolen land." What a thrilling debut from a poet who writes from a widely-lived and richly-attended life." -Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Interpretive Work and Approaching Ice . "Anne Haven McDonnell's sinuous, lush language captures the transient nature of existence in narratives that combine revelatory beauty with compassionate wisdom. Her deep knowledge of the earth-gathered from countless hours listening to what elk on the mountain might be saying, to what salmon in the riverbed might be whispering-teaches us the ways we are transformed by other living beings. "I put on my antlers in the sun. / I walk through the dark gates of the trees , " -Todd Davis, author of Coffin Honey and Native Species "The exquisite poems in Anne Haven McDonnell's Breath on a Coal are concerned with wholeness and intimacy and are made out of direct encounter with the more-than-human world with extrao