Descartes' Nightmare

The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. Descartes' Nightmare is the 2007 prizewinning volume selected by this year's judge, Cole Swenson, of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.