Lightning falls in love / Laura Kasischke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kasischke, Laura, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 123 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In her stunning twelfth poetry collection, Lightning Falls in Love, Laura Kasischke makes magic with a complex alchemy of nostalgia and fire, birdwing and sorrow. In new poems that search the murky lake for news of the past, she evokes unsayable trauma and gleans possibility. This is poetry that is existential in scope but grounded in the body, surreal yet suburban, reaching for clarity just beyond the fog of the day-to-day. Kasischke has found an entirely new way to spin beauty and pull breath from that which must be dredged up and revived before it can be left behind"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. (Are Gone)

Perhaps

The eavesdropper (or what I thought I heard my mother talking about on the phone, in another room, thirty-six years ago)

The time machine

Two canoes

The interview

Eleven girls

When a bolt of lightning falls in love

Storm

My silk scar

Secrets

The house sitter

2. (Have Burned)

She asked me, "Did you cry then?"

True Crime (1)

Blindside

Red Mud Lake (1)

An evil meal

To speak

Neighbor (1)

No elegy

The Nostalgia for Infinity

My first mistress

3. (Will Burn)

For the return of the bee

Red Mud Lake (2)

Neighbor (2)

Moon Landing

A Girl's Guide to Color

Talisman

Two gardens

Suffering song

For a few minutes, once

Nine trials

Rescue Annie

Snapshots, last picnic

Bomb angel

4. (Have Flown)

The beautiful hand

Facts

True Crime (2)

The odyssey

A doll's house

It's not contagious

Cindy2

The Pelican

Red Mud Lake (3)

Gargoyle

Red Mud Lake (4)

On the nature of things

Everyone together at the lake

Paint

I hear

Prayer.

ISBN:

9781556596360

1556596367

OCLC:

1243349457