Gardening in the Dark

Poetry. "Kasischke can recall James Wright, Randall Jarrell, or Jorie Graham, but she resembles none for long. Volatile, sometimes shocking, and seamless, her poems greet, tame, or confront the trials of puberty, medicine and marriage.. Balancing the quotidian with estranging, fluent sentences with tumbling stanzas, and tenderness with anger, Kasischke shows as superb a feel for the bravura enjambments as for single details"-- Stephen Burt, Lingua Franca. Laura Kasischke is the author of five previous volumes of poetry and three novels. Her work has won the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay diCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Beatrice Hawley Award, and many others. She teaches at the University U. of Michigan in Ann Arbor.