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JOSHUA MEHIGAN is a poet born in 1969. His first book, The Optimist (Ohio Univ. Press, 2004), was one of five finalists for a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in many periodicals, including The New York Times, Parnassus, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Talia.

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“[The Optimist is a] work of some poise and finish, by turns delicate and robust, making balanced use of the imposing and receptive facets of intelligence. . . . does not feel like a debut.”
—D.H. Tracy, Poetry