Bøger af Laurie Blauner

Poetry. What Books Press is proud to publish the poems from its first Open Reading selection. Laurie Blauner's It Looks Worse Than I Am compelled the editors by its deft and fearless language, shifting tonalities, and discomforting surrealism. The creature she calls "the animal" is delightfully recognizable to any reader, as are the poems' dreamers, forlorn, and misanthropes who exist in a condition of otherness that can't be appeased. In playful and savage language she reminds us: "There's blood everywhere and a throat full of rabbits. Intent is what happens to others."

The precision of Blauner's beautifully executed and deeply imagined prose evokes the sense of dreams that are awake and stronger than reality, but are reality. We are presented with the archetypes of our age: the challenged; the world-weary, the homeless, the hallucinators, the would-be saviors manifesting in movements which permeate society and truth, the anxious, the hopeful, the neglected, the lost. Blauner moves us through her novel in linguistic lightning strikes, illuminating and penetrating, but never lingering. Out of Which Came Nothing is a stunning book, a book not so much about the change that is coming as the change that has come.