Poetry. GARDENING IN THE DARK, Kasischke's sixth book of poetry, continues to explore the transformative power of imagination. Her poems take us to the flip side of human consciousness, where anything can happen at any time. Tinged with surrealism, her work makes visionary leaps from the quotidian to sudden, surprising epiphanies. "Kasischke can recall James Wright, Randall Jarrell, or Jorie Graham, but she resembles none for long. Volatile, sometimes shocking, and seamless, her poems greet, tame, or confront the trials of puberty, medicine and marriage.... Balancing the quotidian with estranging, fluent sentences with tumbling stanzas, and tenderness with anger, Kasischke shows as superb a feel for the bravura enjambments as for single details"—Stephen Burt.

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.