I Was Bonnie and Clyde by Laura Kasischke

I Was Bonnie and Clyde

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I Was Bonnie and Clyde by Laura Kasischke
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I Was Bonnie and Clyde

Copper Canyon Press

I Was Bonnie and Clyde

by Laura Kasischke

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As technology and consumerism inch to the forefront of society, I Was Bonnie and Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death.


In Kasischke's newest collection, every moment contains an infinity: the mundane in the monumental, and the monumental in the mundane. I Was Bonnie and Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death, from "that last suitcase circling / its last loop / for all of eternity" to "the mole / hauled out of the ground / by the dog / to die in the sun." Ghosts haunt and heighten these poems as they draw upon the independent weariness of women throughout history: Bonnie Parker, Lady Godiva, Amy Winehouse, a handbook's unnamed perfect hostess. Lovingly self-effacing, Kasischke evokes vulnerability, disbelief, and tragedy with a quiet, conversational reverence. With wordplay and exclamation, lament and ironic humor, these poems invite as they reflect, reaching out to a forbidding world.
Book Details
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
ISBN:
9781556597312
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
136
Authors:
Laura Kasischke
Published Date:
2026-05-19
Language:
English
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About Laura Kasischke

A poet and novelist whose fiction has been adapted into several feature films, Laura Kasischke teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. Her poetry collection Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) was longlisted for the National Book Award. Among her many earlier collections are Wild Brides (New York University Press, 1992), Dance and Disappear (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), and Lilies Without (Ausable Press, 2007). She has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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