Synopses & Reviews
With her trademark language--baroque yet colloquial, immediately recognizable but impossible to duplicate--Lisa Russ Spaar has written her most sumptuous, alluring, and steamy poems to date, each one bursting with an appetite for the sensuous and the lingual. "Is syntax erotic?" she asks in . "If so, please. Please read. Here."
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"Lisa Russ Spaar's intensely lyrical language--baroque, incantatory, provocative--enables her to reinvigorate perennial subject matter ... Too ambitious and sensitive to settle for the merely gorgeous, Vanitas, Rough wrestles productively with its inspirations and itself, offering an electrifying glimpse of an omnivorous mind in the throes of creative activity." Boston Review
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“Spaar sounds like no other poet writing today.”—Jennifer Chang, The Believer
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"Spaar sounds like no other poet writing today."--Jennifer Chang,
About the Author
Lisa Russ Spaar has written and edited many books of poetry. She is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.