Poetry. From Snow White to the Yde Girl and Helen of Troy to JonBenet, this lurid and lyrical debut explores the transition from girlhood to womanhood and America's almost pornographic fascination with missing and exploited children. "FIND THE GIRL is a book of poems as urgent as its title.... Here we have an important new poetic voice, one that fully earns Louis Zukofsky's observation that, in poetry, `The story must exist in each word or it cannot go on'"—Laura Kasischke.

Author Hometown: MINNEAPOLIS, MN USA



About the author: Lightsey Darst is originally from Tallahassee, Florida; now she lives in Minneapolis, where she writes dance reviews, curates mnartists.org's "What Light" poetry contest, and teaches English and Humanities. She is the author of the chapbook Ginnungagap (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009) and the full-length collection FIND THE GIRL (Coffee House Press, 2010). Previously, she has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Anderson Center. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Literary Review, Gulf Coast, and New Letters.

Reviews:
author site
Dana Jennings in the New York Times
Heid E. Erdrich @ Cerise Press
interview by Jodi Chromey @ Minnesota Reads