Poetry. In her first collection, Lynch deftly combines the surreal and the lyric into a striking and confident whole. At times witty, at times dreamlike, the poems revel in dense Symbolist-like imagery, juxtaposition, wordplay, and rhyme. "Alessandra is shockingly good. The heroic of her narrative reminds me of Emily Dickinson, which it isn't reminding me of Hart Crane. I have loved her word for years and once they get the hang of it, the rest of the world will too. Bless this magnificent new book!"-Gerald Stern. "I live in a past passage of the rageful crow/ and its stalkfirst feet;/ it has staked my sleep/ and forced me to crawl through flamethrown dawn"-Lynch from "Where I live."