Poetry. "Kasischke's breathless and disjunctive rhetoric becomes the stuff of a frightened and exhuberant intelligence, sometimes rapturous, sometimes crazed, but more often than not deceptively canny in its ostensible abandon, its sentence fractures and strange pairings.... The result is a book both personal and ambitious in scope, full of the startling sympathies, little horrors, and always the irrepressible compulsion toward beauty"—Bruce Bond.
Author City: CHELSEA, MI USA
Laura Kasischke's thirteen books of poetry and fiction include SPACE, IN CHAINS (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), LILIES WITHOUT (Ausable Press, 2007), GARDENING IN THE DARK (Ausable Press, 2004), and FIRE & FLOWER (Alice James Books, 1998). Her novel Her Life Before Her Eyes was adapted for the screen and starred Uma Thurman. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2009, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan.