Poetry. Sandra Doller's tricky, sly language comes at you sideways, full of coinages and puns, and is obsessed with lines: the highways and train tracks that cross deserts; lines from jokes and ghost stories; and lines of influence—Gertrude Stein implicitly, and H.D. explicitly. Doller is not concerned with the complete or the perfect; she shows us the torn edge of notebook paper, "the american wastrel" in a yellow dress, and characters who plead, in a reversal of Goethe's last words, for "no more light."

Author Hometown: Los Angeles, CA USA



About the author: Sandra Doller (née Miller) is the author of three books: ORIFLAMME (Ahsahta Press, 2005), CHORA (Ahsahta Press, 2010), and MAN YEARS (Subito Press, 2011). Doller is the founder and editrice of 1913, a magazine and press carried by Small Press Distribution. She lives all over with her man, Ben Doller, and their creatures.

Reviews:
Jeffrey Cyphers Wright in The Brooklyn Rail
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