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"Many thanks for Sometimes Too Hot the Eye of Heaven Shines.
While these poems do show a continuation of themes in your earlier work, this voice and point of view reach higher than the earlier poems, with a resonance that reminds us of Whitman and Ginsburg. But in the range of tenderness and violence and the persona of the City of Angels I hear something more Blakean. There is at once a ground-level realism and mythic elevation of vision. You have continued to grow in unexpected directions."
              --Robert Morgan 
               Gap Creek, Boone, and The Truest Pleasure.

 Ryka Aoki is the winner of RADAR's first Eli Coppola Memorial Poetry Chapbook Prize. Purchase a limited edition copy of her brilliantly written and beautifully designed poetry chapbook, designed by Sara Jaffe's Inconvenient Press. Also receive a complimentary bookmark featuring a portrait of Eli Coppola and a line from her poetry, created by visual artist Miriam Klein Stahl