Poetry. "In BIVOUAC, Laura Solomon's poems of hope and heartache break and reconvene endlessly, fabricating ghost maps of desire on the page and in the transfixed mind of the reader. Recalling Stevens's oceanic undulations, Solomon's meditations create complex weather systems of language as their true work of culture, politics, and philosophy methodically ebbs and flows"—Tessa Rumsey.

Author City: Verona ITA

Laura Solomon was born in 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her books include BIVOUAC (Slope Editions, 2002), BLUE AND RED THINGS (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007), and THE HERMIT (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). Other publications include a chapbook, Letters by Which Sisters Will Know Brothers, (Katalanché Press, 2005) and Haiku des Pierres/Haiku of Stones by Jacques Poullaoueq, a translation from the French with Sika Fakambi (Editions Apogée, 2006). Her poetry has been included in the anthology Poets on Painters (Witchita State Press, 2007), has appeared in magazines across North America and Europe, and has been translated into ten languages. Most recently she has lived in Paris, Philadelphia, and Verona, Italy.