Thunderbird, Dorothea Lasky
Thunderbird, Dorothea Lasky
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Thunderbird

Author: Dorothea Lasky

Narrator: Dorothea Lasky

Unabridged: 1 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wave Books

Published: 02/15/2025


Synopsis

Recorded live in Los Angeles"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."—Julia Bloch, Bitch"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret."—InDigest Magazine, InDigest PicksGo, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the "purple motel / where the bird lives." Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. Thunderbird's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way.Dorothea Lasky is also the author of Black Life and AWE, both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.

About Dorothea Lasky

Dorothea Lasky in one half of the duo behind the beloved Twitter account @poetastrologers, better known as the Astro Poets. Lasky is the author of six books of poetry and prose. Her work has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and she is an Associate Professor of Poetry at the Columbia University's School of the Arts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra on December 22, 2012

I gave this book to a priest I met in a hotel in Chicago.......more

Goodreads review by TinHouseBooks on March 28, 2013

Matthew Dickman (Poetry Editor): After reading this book I felt I understood something about my own inner-life. That something important in the world was made clearer. So I read it again and again. It’s a wonderful book of poems that should be read by anyone who loves poetry as well as anyone who ha......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 16, 2012

I really enjoyed discovering Lasky's work. Her poems are angular and striking and have a wild sense of humor that threatens to topple your brain over.......more

Goodreads review by Vogisland on October 30, 2012

Sometimes, I felt like she was beating music out of rocks in a railroad tunnel. This book is characterized by a raggedness that is in opposition to the kind of editing that might have made some of the individual poems stronger. The things I didn't like were also often the things that I liked. Maybe......more

Goodreads review by J.A. on October 27, 2013

Black Life and AWE were good, but this new one is by far my favorite. Built of equal parts sincerity and aggression, Lasky makes poetry exciting and genuine, readable and exhilarating. Disillusioned with poems? Start again here.......more