Poetry. LITTLE OBLIVION by Susan Allspaw won the 12th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. LITTLE OBLIVION takes place in Antarctica. It is an extraordinary meditation on a frozen oblivion, a place where God must be found under the ice, a place of beauty, danger, and transcendence. Contest judge, Teresa Leo, had this to say about it: "Susan Allspaw's debut collection draws on her work and many trips to Antarctica in luminous poems that sweep panoramically across mesmerizing landscapes while meditating on the human condition through deep and reverent encounters with the natural world. Here is a reflective place where internal and external landscapes intertwine, making it impossible to avoid 'the mirror of the plateau that shows everyone's true face.' LITTLE OBLIVION's Antarctica is a liminal space that resides in between extremes, a place saturated with such whiteness that 'the sky bleeds into the earth / so that a whole body becomes a palindrome.' These exquisitely textured poems capture the essence of Antarctica's stark beauty. 'White will follow me everywhere,' says the speaker in one of the poems. After reading LITTLE OBLIVION, white will follow us, too."

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.

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