Dorothea Lasky is the author of five full-length collections of poetry: Milk (forthcoming, Wave Books, 2018), Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of several chapbooks, including: Snakes (Tungsten Press, 2017), Thing (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012), Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012), The Blue Teratorn (Yes Yes Books, 2012), Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, MAKE magazine, Phoebe, POETRY, Poets & Writers Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, and 6x6, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013) and is a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, and Bennington College. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.
Contents
a fierce and violent opening
do you want to dip the rat
ghost flight to the moon
a hospital room
the start of the free and natural
Save your flowers
Floral pattern
Why I Hate The Internet
The miscarriage
The book of stars and the universe
The Clog
There is no name yet
Milking the rest of it
Milk, No 2
Love Poem for Bathsheba
The ghost
The Ghosts
The way we treat them
Become a person
Me and you
If you can’t trust the monitors
Hot Pink Summer Titty Tassels
Twin Peaks
OCD
Kill Marry Fuck
At night the snakes
The Dream
Little Kingdom
The School
Snakes
The Minotaur
Fuck everyone
The Secret Life of Mary Crow
You thought
Winter plums
I feel the heavy
Is it a burden
The Medical Institution
Agatha
Poem for the Moon Man
Blue milk
