Lilies Without

✍ Scribed by Laura Kasischke

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 40 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 161932072X

✦ Synopsis

"She has, like all good poets, created a music of her own, one suited to her concerns. When denizens of the 22nd century, if we get there, look back on our era and ask how we lived, they will take an interest both in the strangest personalities who gave their concerns verbal form, and in the most representative. The future will not--should not--see us by one poet alone. But if there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose." --Boston Review

"Kasichke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase." --Austin American-Statesman

Laura Kasischke in her own words: "I realized while ordering and selecting the poems for this collection that much of my more recent work concerns body parts, dresses, and beauty queens. These weren't conscious decisions, just the things that found their way into my poems at this particular point in my...