Our Pornography and other disaster songs Author|Gay Walley won the 2020 Philip Levine

won the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

among numerous other venues

Justice is a literary magician and I was wholly under her spell

the gifted Jewish master-art restorer Hans Muller

Our Pornography and other disaster songs Author|Gay Walley won the 2020 Philip LevineThe winner of the 2018 Slope Book Prize, Our Pornography and other disaster songs was chosen by judge Ocean Vuong. Ocean writes, "Our Pornography is a crystalline, dusky and charmingly stubborn American text whose power rests in its desire to complicate linear time into a constellation of epicenters. This myriad voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment, and ushers it all, like a river carrying the grit and sparkle, truth