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- Prelude to Bruise
- Saeed Jones
- PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
- Stonewall Book Award
- Thom Gunn Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
- Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
- 27th Lambda Literary Awards
- 2014 in poetry
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Prelude to Bruise is a 2014 poetry collection by American author Saeed Jones, published by Coffee House Press on September 9, 2014.
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Reception
Publishers Weekly praised the collection, writing, "Solid from start to finish, possessing amazing energy and focus, a bold new voice in poetry has announced itself."
Writing for NPR, poet Amal El-Mohtar said, "There are too many exceptional poems here to single out, and not a single one that didn't at least impress me."
Awards and nominations
It won the 2015 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. It was a finalist for the 2015 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.