George Estreich received his M.F.A. from Cornell University, where he was awarded the Sage Graduate Fellowship. His poems have appeared in a chapbook, Elegy for Dan Rabinowitz, and in many journals, including Talking River Review, Atlanta Review, and Passages North. In 2002, he won an Oregon literary fellowship and a residency at Caldera. Praise for Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body “This is the best first hook I've read in years, full of distinctive and powerful poems. George Estreich writes a vividly layered poetry, never settling for the easy touch: there's plenty of lyric pleasure to be had here, but there's always a meditative dimension that goes beyond mere surface dazzle. These poems are field guides to our present world in all its darkly radiant detail, to cell and self and ‘the fine print of the stars’; they are also elegies for absent or lost worlds, exacting attempts to find ‘the right word’ to deal with our grief.”                                                                                          —Michael McFee “These are poems of alertness, heightened vividness, telling a story of sustained witness and memory. George Estreich’s brave new voice has a wonderful exactness of testimony, of life between two or more worlds, between vast stellar distances and microscopic minutiae. His lines can he tough as surgical steel, and bite with Swiftian wit, or move us with elegy and carol, finding out new codes and thresholds. Here is an exciting and authoritative poet.”                                                                                         —Robert Morgan