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The Raising
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Laura Kasischke |
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car acci… |
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In a perfect world
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Laura Kasischke |
"The Pilot's Wife" meets "The Road" in critically-acclaimed poet Kasischke's new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices people make when they feel they have no choices left. |
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The Raising
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Laura Kasischke |
Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourning the loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sorority sister tragically killed in a car acci… |
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Dance and Disappear
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Laura Kasischke |
The subject matter of these poems is ordinary: motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, the Midwest. But in addressing these topics, Laura Kasischke finds and reveals the … |
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Fire & Flower
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Laura Kasischke |
The poems in <em>Fire & Flower</em> are about the images that hold the world together in the mind of a child, a woman, and the mother she becomes. The metaphors used to describe their lives are myste… |
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White Bird in a Blizzard
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Laura Kasischke |
When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been "becoming sixteen" - falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, … |
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A Suspicious River
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Laura Kasischke |
Leila Murry is young, married, and working in a motel as a receptionist - and then as a prostitute. The seemingly random abuses and perils of her adult life parallel those Leila suffered as a child, … |
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Be Mine
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Laura Kasischke |
On Valentine’s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year… |
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