Synopses & Reviews
Dorothea Lasky is one of the most talented American poets of her generation. With haunting lines that "recall Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg" () and influences ranging from Drake to Catullus, Lasky fuses the ancient world with the fierceness and heartbreak of everyday life. With each new book, from the grand religiosity of to the flat sadness and nihilism of to the witchery of , her poems keep gaining an increasingly robust readership and have influenced an entire generation of younger poets. In , Lasky finds herself in the arena of eternal longing and heartsick desire, confronting her ghosts and demons and proving she's "one of the very best poets we've got" (Maggie Nelson).
Review
"Dark, fearlessly frank, unabashedly vulnerable and full of real live heart. In line after incantatory line, these poems catch me up, and the raw, stark truth of them holds me rapt, like a spell--something meant to console even as it chastens--and so I understand that what they are built from, and building upon, is the animating energy all true language houses. This is unforgettable work from a poet of urgent and inimitable voice." Tracy K. Smith, author of Life on Mars
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"A trip with the wheels engaged to land at every line ending, then flipped up again. A wholly open-hearted book bringing me back to Bernadette Mayer, Maureen Owen and the suffragettes. True life." Fanny Howe, author of Come and See
Synopsis
"Fearlessly frank" and "unabashedly vulnerable" (Tracy K. Smith), Dorothea Lasky's confronts love and heartbreak in the modern world.
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