Gather Where Now: New And Selected Poems Imagined By Laura Kasischke Readable In Version
new to me poet made quite an impression, This will end up being one of my favorite collections, Powerful and surprising. Not often a book of poetry sneaks up on you unawares, Felt on edge throughout the reading waiting for ambush, A million wonderful lines. The middle collections felt stronger than today's poems or the first, but all had a tangible quality, like a pair of woolen winter pants in a rough weave and aggressive pattern.
Well done. top form Seldom do I read a book of poetry straight through, but Ms, Kasischke's poetry reached out from the page and mesmerized me, I could not stop to browse as is my usual habit, I did not want to miss a single line,
I was initially captivated by the poem, "Masks" which I read in a Copper Canyon FallReader catalogue.
The poem opened like a red rose, then, BAM! that last line: full bloom, pure genius, Discovering a new poet you love is akin to finding a soul mate, someone who thinks like you and understands you.
I highly recommend this book, I've bookmarked dozens of pages, Support poets buy more poetry!!!! “Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power, ” Publishers Weekly
“Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.
”The Washington Post
“For Kasischke poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that
it describes”Los Angeles Books
Laura Kasischkes longawaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the socalled “normal.
” A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the everydaywhether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family.
As literary critic Stephen Burt wrote in Boston , “The future will not see us by one poet alone.
If there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.
”
This incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of Americas great poets, and her presence is secure.
From "Dear Water":
I am your lost daughter and, as always, you
are listening amp fish.
Though
I sift you for sunlight, it
runs from me in glistening pins, vanishes
in the wavering map
of your ungraspable heart.
When I
reach in, you
swallow my cold hands again, swallow
the joy they'd hold.
. .
Laura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several featurelength films.
Her book of poems, Space, in Chains, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan, Probably.because there are quite a few shockingly great poems, But the pitfall of a book this lengthpages is that there are also quite a few forgettable poems.
I would have preferred a slimmer volume Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction.
Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award.
She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several Pushcart Prizes.
Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood.
Kasischkes work is particularly well received in France, where she is widely read in translation, Her novel A moi pour toujours Be Mine Laura Kasischke is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction.
Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award.
She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several Pushcart Prizes.
Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood.
Kasischke's work is particularly well received in France, where she is widely read in translation, Her novel A moi pour toujours Be Mine was published by Christian Bourgois, and was a national best seller.
Kasischke attended the University of Michigan and Columbia University, She is also currently a Professor of English Language and of the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son, sitelink.