· The Kasischke of “Space, in Chains” is an adult daughter, revisiting the deaths of her parents and thinking about her own limited span. Looking backward and Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives, overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in language reminiscent of medieval lyrics converted into contemporary idiom, the poems in Space, In Chains create a visceral strangeness true to its own music/5(20). Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke. reviewed by Ellen Davis. One of Mark Rothko’s floating rectangles is a fitting cover image for Laura Kasischke’s new book of poems, Space, in Chains. Just as his shapes are defined by formal qualities—line and color—so her .
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke. reviewed by Ellen Davis. One of Mark Rothko's floating rectangles is a fitting cover image for Laura Kasischke's new book of poems, Space, in bltadwin.ru as his shapes are defined by formal qualities—line and color—so her poems are formally defined by syntax, line, and internal rhyme. With a prolific eight books of poems and eight novels behind her, it might seem that Kasischke has been tracking that sense of a discontinuous self in real time. Space, In Chains was my first encounter with Laura's work, and I was at first surprised to hear that she wrote fiction. When poets write novels, it's tempting to assume they're. Kasischke was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Space, In Chains. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award.
Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke. reviewed by Ellen Davis. One of Mark Rothko’s floating rectangles is a fitting cover image for Laura Kasischke’s new book of poems, Space, in Chains. Just as his shapes are defined by formal qualities—line and color—so her poems are formally defined by syntax, line, and internal rhyme. Laura Kasischke. Poet and novelist Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her books of poetry include Wild Brides (), Fire and Flower (), Dance and Disappear (), Gardening in the Dark (), Lilies Without (), Space, in Chains (), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Where Now (). Space, in Chains, Laura Kasischke’s eighth book of poetry, is a powerful and stripped collection that presents a picture of grief, less through proclamations and statements than through striking, disturbing and original imagery. While the individual poems mostly come off feeling gloriously bare-boned and raw, at pages the collection itself at times can feel a bit overstuffed and redundant.
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