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Lilies Without by Laura Kasischke is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>"She has, like all good poets, created a music of her own, one suited to her concerns. When denizens of the 22nd century, if we get there, look back on our era and ask how we lived, they will take an interest both in the strangest personalities who gave their concerns verbal form, and in the most representative. The future will not—should not—see us by one poet alone. But if there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.” —<i>Boston Review</i></p> <p>“Kasichke’s poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase.” —<i>Austin American-Statesman</i></p> <p>Laura Kasischke in her own words: "I realized while ordering and selecting the poems for this collection that much of my more recent work concerns body parts, dresses, and beauty queens. These weren't conscious decisions, just the things that found their way into my poems at this particular point in my life, and which seem to have attached to them a kind of prophetic potential. The beauty queens especially seemed to crowd in on me, in all their feminine loveliness and distress, wearing their physical and psychological finery, bearing what body parts

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Author

Laura Kasischke

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619320727

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.99 / 5 (73 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14