Bøger af Laura Kasischke

Kasischke's surreal stories verge on sci fi -- ghost girls in the backyard and changelings in the kitchen.

On Valentine's Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, and empty now that her son is in college. When she discovers who her admirer is, she begins a wildly passionate affair with him. But her son's childhood friend is witness to the affair, her best friend is strangely silent, and her husband is playing a disturbing game of titil­lation and encouragement. Soon events spiral out of Sherry's control, threatening not only her marriage but also her son and her home. This deeply erotic thriller explores how little we know ourselves and those we live with and what we risk when we step away from our social personas and allow passion to control our lives.

The sixth volume by a prize-winning poet also known for her novels.

Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power. Publishers WeeklyEvery poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.The Washington PostFor Kasischke poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describesLos Angeles Review of BooksLaura Kasischkes 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 everydaywhether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family. As literary critic Stephen Burt wrote in Boston Review, 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.This incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of Americas great poets, and her presence is secure.From "e;Dear Water"e;:I am your lost daughter and, as always, youare listening & fish. ThoughI sift you for sunlight, itruns from me in glistening pins, vanishesin the wavering mapof your ungraspable heart. When Ireach in, youswallow my cold hands again, swallowthe joy they'd hold. . .Laura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several feature-length films. Her book of poems, Space, in Chains, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.

Kasischke writes poetry, novels, and YA novels Her novel The Life Before Her Eyeswas made into a movie starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood She has a deep interest in fairy tales, and is especially inspired by Yeats¿s renditions of Irish folk tales.Where Now: New and Selected(Copper Canyon Press) was Longlisted for National Book Award for PoetryWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in ChainsPrevious Kasischke books by Copper Canyon were well-reviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Review, and received numerous ¿Best Book of the Year¿ accolades.Has lived and worked in Michigan her entire life, and many of her poems draw from the suburban landscape of the Midwest.