4. Prayer. Perhaps -- The eavesdropper (or what I thought I heard my mother talking about on the phone, in another room, thirty-six years ago) -- The time machine -- Two canoes -- The interview -- Eleven girls -- When a bolt of lightning falls in love -- Storm -- My silk scar -- Secrets -- The house sitter -- 2. (Have Burned) -- She asked me, "Did you cry then?" -- True Crime (1) -- Blindside -- Red Mud Lake (1) -- An evil meal -- To speak -- Neighbor (1) -- No elegy -- The Nostalgia for Infinity -- My first mistress -- 3. (Will Burn) -- For the return of the bee -- Red Mud Lake (2) -- Neighbor (2) -- Moon Landing -- A Girl's Guide to Color -- Talisman -- Two gardens -- Suffering song -- For a few minutes, once -- Nine trials -- Rescue Annie -- Snapshots, last picnic -- Bomb angel -- 4. (Have Flown) -- The beautiful hand -- Facts -- True Crime (2) -- The odyssey -- A doll's house -- It's not contagious -- Cindy2 -- The Pelican -- Red Mud Lake (3) -- Gargoyle -- Red Mud Lake (4) -- On the nature of things -- Everyone together at the lake -- Paint -- I hear -- Prayer.
Summary:
"In her stunning twelfth poetry collection, Lightning Falls in Love, Laura Kasischke makes magic with a complex alchemy of nostalgia and fire, birdwing and sorrow. In new poems that search the murky lake for news of the past, she evokes unsayable trauma and gleans possibility. This is poetry that is existential in scope but grounded in the body, surreal yet suburban, reaching for clarity just beyond the fog of the day-to-day. Kasischke has found an entirely new way to spin beauty and pull breath from that which must be dredged up and revived before it can be left behind"-- Provided by publisher.
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