Where Now

<p>“Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power. —<I>Publishers Weekly</I></p><p>“Every poem is exquisitely crafted with crisp clean lines and imagery that dazzles.—<I>The Washington Post</I></p><p>“For Kasischke… poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describes—<I>Los Angeles Review of Books</I></p><p>Laura 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 <I>Boston Review</I> “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.</p><p>This incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of America's great poets and her presence is secure.</p><p>From Dear Water:</p><p>I am your lost daughter and as always you<BR>are listening & fish. Though<BR>I sift you for sunlight it<BR>runs from me in glistening pins vanishes<BR>in the wavering map<BR>of your ungraspable heart. When I<BR>reach in you<BR>swallow my cold hands again swallow<BR>the joy they'd hold. . .<BR></p><p>Laura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several feature-length films. Her book of poems <I>Space in Chains</I> won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea Michigan.</p>