The Marksman Contemporary romance winner of the 2020 Bollinger

winner of the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

vanishing children

with her 40th birthday in sight and a precarious hold on employment

the most performed piece of classical music ever written

The Marksman Contemporary romance winner of the 2020 BollingerJeff Friedman's eighth collection of poetry, The Marksman, blends surrealism, dark comedy, fable, hyperbole, history, and reinvented myth to explore the question of what it means to survive and live in our troubled times. This is a book of migrations and transformations, of wrenching displacement and redemption. Through its imaginative reach, wild humor, and dazzling clarity of language, The Marksman centers its aim on the broken dreams of our lives,