A Larger Country

the long version

Selected by Tom Sleigh for the 2012 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, *A Larger Country* is a distinctive and darkly humorous debut collection. “Tomás Morín invokes his heroic literary forebears—Czeslaw Milosz, Isaak Babel, Miklós Radnóti, amongst others—in his energetic and moving book of fantasias and elegies, alert to history, rich with memory, which is, as he tells us, ‘a larger country.’ I welcome this “pageantry of the interior,” this memorable first book.” — Edward Hirsch