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Now You're the Enemy: Poems by James Allen Hall, is a debut collection of poems that focuses on the structure of feeling and family figures. The featured poems center on a family in the aftermath of violence.

Hall focuses his words on the complicated dynamics and relationships contained within a family. "I was mothered into art," he writes. The collection was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Book Award and a semifinalist for the Crab Orchard/Open Competition Book Award.

"Hall's poems are physically charged, nervy, both measured and fevered, compassionate and outrageous, and alive to the very core," writes poet and author Mark Doty. An assistant professor of English at Bethany College in West Virginia, Hall is also the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize.

The collection has been published as part of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series, which is edited by poet Enid Shomer. The poetry series publishes works by emerging and mid-career poets.

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