Little Stranger
Published on 3. July 2013
96 pages
978-1-61932-057-4 (ISBN)
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Lisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. Through encounters with science, war, art, animals, and motherhood, Little Stranger explores the exigencies of close attention, the tenuousness of attachment, and the ever more rapidly shifting nature of knowledge. Intimate lyrics, elegies, and narratives speak in voices familiar yet strange.
Lisa Olstein's debut collection of poetry, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the Hayden Carruth Award, and her second volume, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), was named a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" by Library Journal. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Lisa Olstein's debut collection of poetry Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon, 2006) won the Hayden Carruth Award, and her second volume, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon, 2009), was named a "Best Poetry Book of the Year? by Library Journal. After receiving her BA from Barnard College, Olstein lived in Greece and studied at Harvard Divinity School before deciding to pursue an MFA at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She currently serves as Associate Director of MFA program for Poets and Writers at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she cofounded the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action and is a contributing editor at jubilat. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Content
- Cover
- Dedication
- Contents
- Title Page
- Note to the Reader
- Themselves Performing Small Brave Acts
- Spirit Level
- This Is a Test of the Internal Emergency Broadcast System
- Teaching Farm
- Blood, Bread, Spoons
- Control Group
- Deserter's Information Center
- Furniture Music
- To Where
- The Brain Is an Operations Center
- Necessary Monsters
- A Tiger's Roar Is Friend
- Different Animals
- Ibex Have Evolved for Life at the Top
- Barasingha Find Safety in Numbers
- Notes from the Wilderness
- You Can Tell a Tiger by Its Stripes
- Heavy Hunters Rely on Stealth
- When You're a Top Predator You Have to Survive
- Sambar Lead Private Lives
- Leopards Are Flexible Cats
- I'm Writing You a Telegraph and the Pony and the Pony Express Man Are Waiting by the Door
- Cold Satellite
- Marooned
- The Flow of Alien Deer
- Exile the Dragon-Tailed and the Rabbit-Eared among You
- Dear Sir
- Was to Have Been Called Whip-Poor-Will
- A Mr. and Mrs. Rajik Once Existed and Lived Happilyin Kalisz
- Helpmeet, Handmaiden
- Every Boy, Every Blood
- My Eyes Were Harbors
- Rabbits with Wise Eyes
- The Famed Clipper Ship Is in Flames
- To Them Belong the Beds in Which We Sleep
- Diorama
- Aubade
- Elegy
- Elegy
- Elegy
- Elegy
- Elegy
- Vespers
- This Waking Life
- Different Habitats Make for Good Neighbors
- I Saw a Brand-New Look
- Blast Harmonics
- The Queen Is Dead. Long Live the Queen.
- This Season It's All about 3D
- Brainstorm
- Silver Whips of Trees
- When I Wake Too Soon
- Smaller Devices
- Theory of Correspondences
- Space Junk
- About the Author
- Books by Lisa Olstein
- Copyright
- Lannan Literary Selections
- Special Thanks
