Carper, Thomas (recipient of the 2003 Richard Wilbur Award), — Distant Blue.

Evansville, IN, Univ of Evansville Press, (2003). VG in VG DJ. Carefully crafted poems and beautifully rendered translations from authors such as Ronsard, Du Bellay, and Akhmatova. A powerful testimony to an author whose mind ranges from sublimed metaphysical observatins to unique perspectives on the minutiae of everyday life. Poet and criic Alfred Dorn wrote of Carper "Painting with words instead of colors.".