Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2008.
Ohio Violence starts with scandal: the narrator leads the high school football coach into the cornfields, but as she promises, "nothing happened." In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, turn on each other. Men watch from the rearview as the narrator hedges, changes her mind, then shows all in this break-out collection of bittersweet and cataclysmic lyrics. "Alison Stine writes, Believe me.' I am telling you a story, ' and the story she tells us we believe as it unfolds. The poems...