All There Is To Lose
Winner of The Levis Prize in Poetry, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky
forthcoming from Four Way Books, March 2026
Praise from Ilya Kaminsky:
“...what I loved most in this book is how the images, details, and specifics carried emotion via perspective, while lyrical turn of phrase. Often understated, pared down, the poetry lives here in specifics that emote: a mother scrubs clean the headstone carvings, a man remembers laughing after he watched his father enter the river twenty years ago, the travelers sleep with their heads on greasy bags. Each detail carries an undertow of emotion. Why is that? Is it because we see it all as the poet sees it after years have gone by? Flesh flowers in years, the poet tells us. Perhaps. Or perhaps the book is captivating because the elegy is its driving force. What is an elegy? that ages-old mode of poetry wherein the poet uses the language to break bread with the dead, to bring them back to life, if only for the moment, for a portion of the moment, an instant, before the line breaks. End of the World(The Original Tittle) is where we find ourselves at any moment. Some of us look back. “
Aiden Heung/艾登 