Poetry. Stacie Leatherman's dynamic poems inhabit the cusp between the domestic and the utterly strange. To read them is to travel where we haven't been before, where things seem lost or on the verge of disappearing. To make something from nothing, out of the pure air of imagination, but to make it so sensually, emphasizing touch, creating a world of things to fill the air, a world of tumbling metaphors and images, is the essence of this superb book where every word is a metaphor for something unsayable. Leatherman is always probing, uncovering and discovering, and she understands that surrealism is a mode of restless thought, not a mere program. When you open STRANGER AIR, you open yourself, and what you find will amaze and redefine you.

Author City: STRONGSVILLE, OH USA

Stacie Leatherman is the author of the books of poetry STORM CROP (BlazeVOX books, 2011) and STRANGER AIR (Mayapple Press, 2011) and has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street, Caketrain, Crazyhorse, Diagram, elimae, and NEW AMERICAN WRITING, among others. She lives with her husband and son near Cleveland, Ohio.

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