Poetry. LILIES WITHOUT is Laura Kasischke's seventh volume of poetry. Widely admired for her startling use of metaphor and her nervy, surprising syntax, she continues in this book to peel back the skins of our ordinary lives to reveal the underlying anxieties and complexities. Funny, irreverent, personal, and at the same time unnerving, these poems take us to familiar places made entirely strange so that we may see them again as they really are, without the trappings and disguises we invent so as to remain blind to what disturbs us. Few poets write about parenthood with the combination of tenderness and steely insight that Kasischke brings to her work. Of this quality, Jonathan Weinert has written that Kasischke "succeeds in joining a fiercely personal self-reckoning to a searching intelligence within a heightened and authentic suburban idiom."

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.

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