Poetry Is Not a Project

Dorothea Lasky

Sarah Glidden, Illustrator

ESSAY, POETICS  |  $10 $7

April 2010
OUT OF PRINT
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In a style much like her poetry—expansive, vulnerable, and never without fire—Dorothea Lasky delivers a theory of writing based as much in the Humanist tradition as Hermeticism. Calling poets away from civilization, back towards the wilderness, Lasky brazenly urges artists away from conceptual programs, resurrecting imagination and faith-in-the-uncertain as saviors from mediocrity.

About the Author

Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Laurel Review, Crowd, 6×6, the Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Octopus, among others. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Currently, she lives in New York City and researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.

About the Contributor

Sarah Glidden is a cartoonist and illustrator working primarily in non-fiction and reportage comics.

Publication Details

Chapbook
Hand-bound. 24 pp, 5.5 x 6 in
Publication Date: April 05 2010
Distribution: Direct Only
Series: Dossier