"Much has been made of poetry’s ability to transform the everyday into the remarkable, to turn the familiar strange. And so it would seem almost damning praise to assign what has become an overly generalized virtue to Kasischke’s wholly idiosyncratic work. But [Laura] Kasischke doesn’t just make the familiar seem strange; she brings the strange closer and makes it, if not more familiar, a more constant, uneasy companion." Jeremy Bass • Kenyon Review

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