PreviewsLisa Richter
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Nautilus and Bone
Lisa Richter
This biography-in-poems captures the brilliant and tragic spirit of Yiddish poet Anna Margolin in a rich new voice, exploring major events and places in Margolin’s life, putting her in dialogue with other poets such as Yusef Komunyakaa, Mark Doty, William Blake, and Charles Baudelaire, and using forms like the glosa, the cento, and the Golden Shovel to pay homage.
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Sublunary
Lisa Richter
The pandemic-tinged poems in this collection portray the deep grief and love related to losing a father, the climate crisis, societal breakdown, and Jewish traditions in ways that are surreal, playful, elegiac, reflective, and forgiving. They are poems that offer “not absolution, but acknowledgement, / not a soapbox but a touchstone.”
