Fire & Flower

Poetry. Three sections of ten poems each, which revel in the gorgeous possibilities of language even as they acknowledge the impossibility of language to contain the things it describes: But there will always be/ storms & gray// that settle on their shoulders blurred as sparrows// before they fly away. Seasons/ and the names for them will change. (from A is for Almost) Kasischke's world...is a world in which grace and horror, beauty and carnage, tragedy and hilarity commingle.-Harvard Review. Kasischke is the author of two previous collections of poems, WILD BRIDES and HOUSEKEEPING IN A DREAM, and the novel SUSPICIOUS RIVER. She has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently teaches at Washtenaw Community College in Michigan.