{"product_id":"where-now-new-and-selected-poems-9781556596445","title":"Where Now: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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\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\u003cp\u003eFrom Dear Water: \u003c\/p\u003e\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. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several feature-length films. Her book of poems, \u003ci\u003eSpace, in Chains\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381035307282,"sku":"9781556596445","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_679393a3-14ae-4793-b739-d34c480e1ccc.jpg?v=1728691748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-now-new-and-selected-poems-9781556596445","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}