<p>The Italian Professor's Wife by Ann Pedone won the 2022 Press 53 Award for Poetry <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>plays out in the flat liminal spaces of hotel rooms trains stations and restaurants. These are objectivist psychosexual vignettes-imagine Carl Rakosi doing erotica-but also meditations on time. Pedone's poetry is full of odd charm and engaging particularity. -Drew Gardner </span></p>