2001 Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Adrienne Rich. As its title suggests, Ed Pavlic’s Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue seeks a glow at the deeper end of the spectrum, an exuberant flourish at the core of who we are. The poems, at once, vamp and whisper the supple harmony and lush dissonance of human connections, intimate and erotic, psychological, historical, familial, cultural.