The Cuckoo

Announcing the 2003 recipient of the oldest annual literary prize in North America The winner of the 2003 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfuss The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate Louise Glck. It is Glcks first selection as judge. In this unforgettable, daring first collection, Peter Streckfus offers the reader poems of deep originality and astonishing power. Taking his inspiration from both American and Chinese culture, Streckfus seems an impossible combination of John Ashbery and Ezra Pound. In her Foreword, Glck praises Streckfuss art for its nonsense and mystery, its mesmerizing beauty and luminous high-mindedness.