{"product_id":"where-now-new-and-selected-poems-by-laura-kasischke","title":"Kasischke, Laura: Where Now: New and Selected Poems (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopper Canyon Press, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: July 04, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For Kasischke... poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describes\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaura Kasischke's long-awaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the so-called \"normal.\" A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the everyday--whether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family. As literary critic Stephen Burt wrote in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The future will not see us by one poet alone....If there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of America's great poets, and her presence is secure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Dear Water\":\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am your lost daughter and, as always, you\u003cbr\u003eare listening \u0026amp; fish. Though\u003cbr\u003eI sift you for sunlight, it\u003cbr\u003eruns from me in glistening pins, vanishes\u003cbr\u003ein the wavering map\u003cbr\u003eof your ungraspable heart. When I\u003cbr\u003ereach in, you\u003cbr\u003eswallow my cold hands again, swallow\u003cbr\u003ethe joy they'd hold. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31328854278167,"sku":"9781556595127","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_b43705ad-2fc6-4e0d-be8d-b8c106abb23f.jpg?v=1586461520","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/where-now-new-and-selected-poems-by-laura-kasischke","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}