Poetry. Winner of 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives, overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in language reminiscent of medieval lyrics converted into contemporary idiom, the poems in SPACE, IN CHAINS create a visceral strangeness true to its own music.

"Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down."—The New York Times Book Review

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.

Reviews and Other Links
Lisa Russ Spaar @ Ron Slate's On the Seawall
Bracha Goykadosh @ The Rumpus
Stephen Burt @ NY Times Book Review
Daisy Fried @ Poetry Magazine
Stephen Burt @ Oprah's Best Poetry Books of the Year