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Ultimately, Lasky's poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted--by past selves, poetic ancestors, and paradoxical histories. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dorothea Lasky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806607179818,"sku":"9781950268856","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/shining-6509721.jpg?v=1762480876"},{"product_id":"memory","title":"Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eA poet's spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer's monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky's \u003ci\u003eMemory\u003c\/i\u003e is a cycle of \"poet's essays\" stirred by two profound questions. What constitutes personhood and consciousness? What memories get lost, and why? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExpansive in her quest for answers, Lasky launches an inspired investigation of the forces that form our lives and deepest senses of ourselves. She identifies three dimensions of memory--ancestral, personal, and poetic--and in her singularly clear voice, undertakes to enter into their mysteries. From those recesses, she returns with a wide-ranging collection of essays that like lyric poems find the universal inside the particular. \u003ci\u003eMemory\u003c\/i\u003e reflects on the banal; private emotions and historical trauma; dear departed poets (Diane di Prima, Lucie Brock-Broido); her father's battle with Alzheimer's; and cultural events that have become charged sites of collective reminiscence (the moon landing, the music of Neutral Milk Hotel). Other pieces face the flip side of memory, asking what's left where memory is absent, and what's \"real\" beyond the horizon of death. The book closes with \"Time, the Rose, and the Moon,\" an ars poetica published here in English for the first time, which offers the ancient symbol of the Ouroboros as a figure for the nonlinear processes of time, memory, and art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Mayer before her, Lasky reveals memory to be huge and haunting, as she accumulates impressions that challenge the very possibility of fixed meaning. \"Every rose has the scent of death,\" she writes. \"And poetry is a perfume. That will stay on your body forever.... 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Their long-awaited first book is in the grand tradition of Linda Goodman's \u003ci\u003eSun Signs\u003c\/i\u003e, but made for the world we live in today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these pages the Astro Poets help you see what's written in the stars and use it to navigate your friendships, your career, and your very complicated love life. If you've ever wondered why your Gemini friend won't let you get a word in edge-wise at drinks, you've come to the right place. When will that Scorpio texting \"u up?\" at 2AM finally take the next step in your relationship? (Hint: they won't). Both the perfect introduction to the twelve signs for the astrological novice, and a resource to return to for those who already know why their Cancer boyfriend cries during commercials but need help with their new whacky Libra boss, this is the astrology book must-have for the twenty-first century and beyond.","brand":"Alex DimitrovDorothea Lasky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43834815217706,"sku":"9781250313300","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/astro-poets-your-guides-to-the-zodiac-9288002.jpg?v=1764144252"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/dorothea-lasky.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}