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All There Is to Lose

All There Is to Lose

Heung, Aiden

Paperback

Series: Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1961897687
ISBN13: 9781961897687
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Mar 15 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.92 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

Marking Aiden Heung's debut collection, All There Is to Lose is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The selecting judge, National Book Award Finalist Ilya Kaminsky, praises the resonant particularities and depth of feeling found in these poems, which convert elegy [into] its driving force. Poet and Critic Felicity Plunkett observes, Dreams and memory move through these porous, venturesome poems. The spectral jostles with the sensual to tell 'a story in which I could be found.' Achily tender, they open to light, love and the jab of a joke. Poet David Tait notes, Unsettling and luminous, the poems preserve the memory of Village 915: its volatile seasons and hard-worn inhabitants, its headstones, spirits, and myriad forms of water. Here you'll find not only poems of lyrical beauty, but of grim exactness. The result is a stunning achievement of a first book, what Kaminsky identifies as an exemplar of that ages-old mode of poetry wherein the poet uses language to break bread with the dead, to bring them back to life, if only for the moment, for a portion of the moment, an instant, before the line breaks. Channeling the poet as medium, I am the tension on the bow that draws the arrow, Heung writes in Epilogue. To lose myself -- that is my destiny.

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