Winner of the 2012 Gatewood Prize, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy

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"Heim's poems are treasurehouses of carved thought: she is actually thinking, word by word, line by line, and her argument's currents seem to etch patterns in the syntax, like wall carvings made by a delicate and ethical hand. Everything here is transparency, lightness—illuminations sifted through a mind willing to be unsettled by experience's injurious data. Reading these phenomenal and profoundly philosophical poems, I think of still lives by Giorgio Morandi—careful, enigmatic arrangements of the ordinary. Heim's acoustic elegance places her in the front ranks of those who pursue the plainspoken sublime."—Wayne Koestenbaum

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"Heim's statements, phrases, and clauses can be quite short, curt, making us leap distances in our thought process to get to the next one. But in using this direct route she allows us to travel far. And she reveals so much of herself, of her brilliance, by letting us find it for ourselves." —Brenda Shaugnessy

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"Stefania Heim's magical Table is full of transformative generosities. Its mysterious world is 'wildly kind.' These poems delight in the shapes of our boundedness even as they consider the infinite. They celebrate the transitory, the uncanny, the evanescent properties of mind. In the film adaptation of this dream of a book, we are in the woods, but we're not lost. Stefania says, 'What a strange thing a house is.' Yes, I say, we are having the same dream. In the dream we are waking up." —Elizabeth Willis

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Coldfront review of A Table That Goes on for Miles

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The Rumpus review of A Table That Goes on for Miles

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The Volta review of A Table That Goes on for Miles

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Stefania Heim is author of the poetry collection A TABLE THAT GOES ON FOR MILES (Switchback 2014) and translator of GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS, metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico's Italian poems (forthcoming APS Books). She is a Poetry Editor at Boston Review and a current Visiting Faculty Member at Bennington College.