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Angie Estes' Voice-Over explores the erotics of language and its meanings in poems both experimental and lyric. This stunning collection of poems was the winner of the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize.

Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award (2015)
Winner of the Audre Lorde Prize (2014)

"Angie Estes has recently created some of the most beautiful verbal objects on the planet." (Stephen Burt, Boston Review)

"James Merrill, Amy Clampitt and Gjertrud Schnackenberg all won praise, and sparked controversy, for their elaboration; Estes shares some of their challenges, should please their readers, and belongs in their stellar company." - Publishers Weekly

Angie Estes' previous book, Tryst (also from Oberlin College Press), was named one of two finalists for the 2010...

Angie Estes' Tryst was named one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. The citation called it "a collection of poems remarkable for its variety of subjects, array of genres and nimble use of language."

What is the language of "home"? What would it mean to be "at home" in language? And what does it mean, in the postmodern world, not to be at home in one's language? These are some of the questions that inform Angie Estes' brilliant new collection, Chez Nous, her first since the prize-winning Voice-Over. The origins of her project lie in Theodor Adorno's comment that in the postmodern, post-Holocaust world, the only "home" now available to us is in language. The results, in poems that are lyrical, experimental, and layered with meanings that cross between languages, cultures, and historical...