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Persea, paperback

Publication Date:November 16, 2021

Publisher Marketing:Lisa Russ Spaar sounds like no other poet writing today.Jennifer Chang,The Believer

This career-spanning volume portrays in stunning fashion Lisa Russ Spaars exquisite obsessions: spiritual hunger, lingual pleasures, bodily decay. The ringleader of a stunning lexicon (Shenandoah), Spaars poems are both colloquial and sumptuous, hyper-attuned to contemporary idiom while rooted in languages primordial, earthy roots. Whether writing of the erotic or the divine, of anorexia or insomnia, of fairy tale or literary history, Spaars writing is unmistakably her own, a trove of music and magic like nothing else in contemporary poetry. InMadrigalia, her oeuvre is on full display; it is a showcase of her indispensable poetic gifts, a tribute to a writer both acetic and ecstatic.