Overview
Winner 2023 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry PrizeReviews
"Liane Strauss has given us an invaluable book of poetry about reading and finding ourselves in a paradox of being both narrator and narrative of our own lives."—Mark Jarman, The Hudson Review
“Like Penelope’s daily weaving, ripped out each night in order to keep in play the possibility of a happy ending (Odysseus’s return, Laertes's Death forestalled), each of these fascinating poems is part of a larger story, each an exquisitely observed vignette that pinpoints a moment of conversation, or observation, or travel, that reveals, much like a chapter in a novel might, a set of characters with moods and conundrums. As the scenes accrue, the individual points in time become an inner life made visible, a brilliant enactment of a mind talking back to the world: “I know as soon as I wake up it’s time to start rethinking everything again.” Unputdownable, as in “so gripping as to be read right through at one sitting.” —Mary Jo Bang, Contest Judge, Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize 2023Author Biography
Liane Strauss is the author of Leaving Eden, Frankie, Alfredo, and All the Ways You Still Remind Me of the Moon. She is also the author of the Substack How To Read a Poem: A Love Story. She lives in New York City and Guilford, CT.