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<p><P>Ann Lauterbach's ninth work of poetry, <i>Or to Begin Again</i>, takes its name from a sixteen-poem elegy that resists its own end, as it meditates on the nearness of specific attachment and loss against the mute background of historical forces in times of war. In the center of the book is a twelve-part narrative, "Alice in the Wasteland,"inspired by Lewis Carroll's great character and T.S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem. Alice is accosted by an invisible Voice as she wanders and wonders about the nature of language in relation to perception. In this volume, Lauterbach again shows the range of her formal inventiveness, demonstrating the visual dynamics of the page in tandem with the powerful musical cadences and imagery of a contemporary master.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>This ninth collection of poetry finds Lauterbach doing what she does best, anchoring her roving eye and associative thinking among the banalities and raptures of a mature urban life. If her banalities, often comically deployed, are sometimes merely that ("There are new blinds on the windows across the way"), her raptures, often in the form of physical description, can truly exhilarate and sound like no

Author

Ann Lauterbach

Publisher

New York: Penguin Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101026403

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.72 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14