Dorothea Lasky, Author . Wave Books $14 (73p) ISBN 978-1-933517-24-7
Most notable in this slim debut is Lasky's recurring and refreshingly un-ironic awe of God, the soul and the spirit. Amid Brazilian bikini waxes, cheating lovers and trips to the 7-Eleven, Lasky negotiates a young woman's world with true...
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Dorothea Lasky, Author . Wave Books $14 (72p) ISBN 978-1-933517-43-8
“All poetry that matters today has feelings in it,” says Lasky deep into her second book, which illustrates how that statement can be true of poems that are also hip and ironic. Though cut of the same cloth as her debut, Awe
, this...
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Dorothea Lasky. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-933517-63-6
Even after titling her last book Black Life, Lasky's latest aims to go darker—more death-driven—with poems that can be as commanding and loud as they can understated and vulnerable. "I like weird ass hippies," she writes in a poem of the same name, "
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Dorothea Lasky. Norton/Liveright, $23.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-87140-939-3
Lasky (Thunderbird) opens her fourth collection with the phrase "Consume my heart" and proceeds to consume herself over the course of the book's 59 poems. From the beginning, the poems are concerned with death and self, But otherwise it's hard to...
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Dorothea Lasky. Wave, $18 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-940696-64-5
Exhibiting her typically unabashed, rhythmic, and confessional style, Lasky (Rome) revels in both shadow and light as she writes through isolation, motherhood, and loss. At its best, Lasky’s voice is hypnotically primal, resulting in inexplicable,...
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Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky. Flatiron, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-31330-0
Lasky (Milk) and Dimitrov (Begging for It), both published poets, jointly run a Twitter account with 500,000 followers that serves as a guide to the zodiac and forms the basis of this whimsical yet astute volume. In many ways they present a...
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Dorothea Lasky. Wave, $18 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-950268-85-6
Readers who would like to fully engross themselves in Lasky’s innovative latest (after Milk) should rewatch The Shining in preparation. “The key to surviving in here/ is to pretend every room is haunted/ even when it isn’t,” she cautions. As the...
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