About the author of this award-winning collection, final judge Miller Williams commented:
Meredith Carson writes poems so well-controlled in tone that the language of conversation takes on an elegance rarely found in contemporary poetry, but emphatically contemporary.
In this, her first collection of poetry, Meredith Carson combines form and feeling, human nature and animal instinct, a scientist's eye and a poet's heart to create poetry of detail and delight.
From her ghost crabs, which stand on four fixed wickets to the mangrove sprouts floating, wobbling vertically like pencils...

Combining form and feeling, human nature and animal instinct, a scientist's eye and a poet's heart, Meredith Carson creates poetry of detail and delight. Her Infinite Morning was chosen from nearly 650 manuscripts as the first winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Carson uses her scientific background and the experience of working with her biologist husband in the field to give her poetry clarity and rigor. Her vision continually compels the reader to look more closely for the rewards and treasures of nature that she herself has found. Steeped in science's ongoing inquiry into reality,...