Labor

I have to keep looking; try to see more, speak more, turn away less, says Lisa DeSiro in her fine first book, Labor. And this is what her poems do: they keep their eyes peeled, their ears open, and their hearts receptive. (Boston street bustle comes vividly alive in many of these poems.) But receptivity demands a tolerance for paradox, and DeSiro's poems--in disarmingly simple, idiomatic language--plumb the secrets of the world's contradictions. "Go ahead, enjoy this day" begins a poem titled "9/11 Anniversary, Public Garden." At home with the prose poem as well as the tightly rhymed lyric, DeSiro distills memorable music from the most colloquial moments--"We were all thumbs on our dumb phones"--and offers readers a vibrant panoply of sights and sounds, captured and conveyed in her impressively taut writing. -- Steven Cramer, author of Clangings and Goodbye to the Orchard

• | Author: LISA. DESIRO
• | Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 70 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0999397133
• | ISBN-13: 9780999397138