- Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Alice James Books (July 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1882295218
- ISBN-13: 978-1882295210
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 0.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,224,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"As a poetry of the entangled passionate and familial tragedies that poets in postwar America have opted to write into the public record, I have found no collection of poems more moving or profoundly aware or skilled with intensity and restraint than this one." -- Michigan Quarterly Review
"Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle." -- Harvard Review
"Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle." -- Harvard Review
Book Description
Poetry. Three sections of ten poems each, which revel in the gorgeous possibilities of language even as they acknowledge the impossibility of language to contain the things it describes: "But there will always be/storms & gray//that settle on their shoulders blurred as sparrows//before they fly away. Seasons/and the names for them will change." (from "A is for Almost") "Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle."-Harvard Review. Kasischke is the author of two previous collections of poems, Wild Brides and Housekeeping in a Dream, and the novel Suspicious River. She has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently teaches at Washtenaw Community College in Michigan.
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An Astonishing Voice,
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This review is from: Fire & Flower (Paperback)
Laura Kasischke's writing, in both her poems and her novels, is brilliantly original. She handles difficult subject matter with unblinking honesty, but doesn't ignore the power of ironic humor. There is a real person behind these poems, and I feel lucky to have finally found a poet/writer whose work I never tire of. You know that record you've played over and over and still haven't grown tired of, the songs that sound fresh every time like the first time? That's how this writer works for me.
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A Strange and Beautiful Book of Poems,
By A Customer
This review is from: Fire & Flower (Paperback)
This is a strange and beautiful book of poems. Laura Kasischke writes vividly, but the poems are also creepy and mysterious. I've had the honor of taking her class at Washtenaw Community College twice now, and I have to say she is one of the funniest, nicest ladies I've ever met. Where she finds these frightening images and subjects beats the heck out of me, but that just adds to the mystery, and makes me love these poems even more.
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An Astonishing Voice,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fire & Flower (Paperback)
Laura Kasischke's writing, in both her poems and her novels, is brilliantly original. She handles difficult subject matter with unblinking honesty, but doesn't ignore the power of ironic humor. There is a real person behind these poems, and I feel lucky to have finally found a poet/writer whose work I never tire of. You know that record you've played over and over and still haven't grown tired of, the songs that sound fresh every time like the first time? That's how this writer works for me.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Strange and Beautiful Book of Poems,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Fire & Flower (Paperback)
This is a strange and beautiful book of poems. Laura Kasischke writes vividly, but the poems are also creepy and mysterious. I've had the honor of taking her class at Washtenaw Community College twice now, and I have to say she is one of the funniest, nicest ladies I've ever met. Where she finds these frightening images and subjects beats the heck out of me, but that just adds to the mystery, and makes me love these poems even more.
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