Laurie Sheck, Author . Knopf $23 (112p) ISBN 978-0-375-41279-0
From the "irradiated mirrors" and "smooth unstartled mannequins" of its long title sequence to an impressive poem about art historians' radiography, Sheck's fourth collection presents intricate verbal surfaces, with pointers...
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Laurie Sheck, Author . Knopf $25 (80p) ISBN 978-0-307-26539-5
The squat, long-lined poems of Sheck's fifth collection meditate on American captivity narratives—stories popular in the late 17th century, such as Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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Laurie Sheck, Author . Knopf $28 (530p) ISBN 978-0-307-27105-1
Respected poet Sheck delivers a classic poet’s first novel, a long, polyphonic, often directionless sprawl of unconventional narrative. In her poetry, Sheck has striven to mimic the kinesis of the modern mind: an entrapped being, self-conscious
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Laurie Sheck. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $26 (396p) ISBN 978-1-61902-835-7
In her follow-up to A Monster’s Notes, Sheck again channels the voice of a disfigured protagonist to create this novel that reads like a lucid dream. Told in short chapters composed of choppy paragraphs, the book starts with reclusive Ambrose A. at...
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