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Black Life (Paperback)
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Description
You are born and it is to a black life
Full of abuse and strange things . . .
In her brazen second collection, Dorothea Lasky cries out beyond prophecy and confession, through to an even more powerful empathy. On the verge of becoming pure substance and sensation, Black Life is emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in radically affirming intensity.
I leave and I am a black life . . .
And I want to
Be what you made me to be
Dorothea Lasky is the author of two collections of poetry. Educated at the University of Massachusetts, Washington University, and Harvard University, she currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
About the Author
Dorothea Lasky is the author of two collections of poetry, AWE and Black Life (both published by Wave Books), and numerous chapbooks. She has been educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Harvard University and Washington University. She currently teaches in the Executive Program in Work-Based Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania.
Praise for Black Life…
"If these poems, cast in ragged columns and haphazard lines, often seem dashed off, that's part of the point: they surge with immediacy, meaning and not meaning what they say."—Publishers Weekly
"Through her specific, strange, and always riveting voice, Lasky reveals truths about the self in relation to all that inspires awe, be it a sexual relationship and its unraveling or metaphysical confrontations with holiness. These poems read as prophetic and yet incredibly immediate."—American Poet
"Balancing a ferocious confessional poetry with her trademark levity and playfulness, Lasky examines the dark undercurrents of what it means to exist with an uncertain expiration date, the very sadness and strangeness of humanity."—Rain Taxi
