ROME
Poems
Published on 22. September 2014
96 pages
978-0-87140-940-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Fearlessly frank” and "unabashedly vulnerable” (Tracy K. Smith), Dorothea Lasky's ROME confronts love and heartbreak in the modern world.
Dorothea Lasky is one of the most talented American poets of her generation. With haunting lines that "recall Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg” (Chicago Tribune) and influences ranging from Drake to Catullus, Lasky fuses the ancient world with the fierceness and heartbreak of everyday life. With each new book, from the grand religiosity of AWE to the flat sadness and nihilism of Black Life to the witchery of Thunderbird, her poems keep gaining an increasingly robust readership and have influenced an entire generation of younger poets. In ROME, Lasky finds herself in the arena of eternal longing and heartsick desire, confronting her ghosts and demons and proving she's "one of the very best poets we've got” (Maggie Nelson).More details
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Author of Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, and editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry, the Missouri-born Dorothea Lasky is an assistant professor of poetry at Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, and the Boston Review. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
