Lifer
Lifer is Annette Basalyga's first book of poetry. She's currently working on a second book and is also collaborating on another book about and including poetry. Lifer is the long-wished-for book by Annette Basalyga, who probably never knew that her c...
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Lifer is Annette Basalyga's first book of poetry. She's currently working on a second book and is also collaborating on another book about and including poetry. Lifer is the long-wished-for book by Annette Basalyga, who probably never knew that her classmates in the famous Iowa Writers Workshop of the sixties thought her the most graceful writer in the room. Now, she has put together a collection that reminds us--but it's far more. With delicate precision, she applies an original, surgical imagination to circumstance and memory. Leave it to this poet of a lifetime to reconfirm for us what poetry is, beyond performance, when it matters. "Lifer is detailed, beautiful, and courageous." --Marvin Bell
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