Poetry. RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE is a debut volume that explores the zones of transformation and the logics of perception. Lisa Olstein is a poet intrigued by self-hypnosis and those edges in consciousness where memory slides into imagination. "We're always on the lookout for signs, hidden messages/in things--the curve of a pear, how long it takes to rot./Once the flowers we bought from a curbside vendor/browned and fell in a day; once they lasted./The first were daisies. The second were daisies." Lisa Olstein studied at Barnard, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Harvard Divinity School. She currently directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action.

Author City: AMHERST, MA USA

Lisa Olstein is the author of the Hayden Carruth Award-winning volume RADIO CRACKLING, RADIO GONE. She earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts and directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action in Amherst, Massachusetts.