The Infinitesimals

Laura Kasischke

The Infinitesimals, Laura Kasischke’s ninth poetry collection, exhibits the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned her Space, in Chains the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Informed by illness and the deaths of loved ones, Kasischke’s new work embraces the living, sensual world with mysterious and lyrical imagery. The bodies in these poems remember their losses vividly, while the phantoms here know the physical world better than the living do. Kasischke’s poetry remains blatant and enigmatic, indelible and ephemeral, as it speaks of and to this world.

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ISBN: 9781556594663

Format: Paperback

Masks

At the grocery store today—
these meteors and angels, wise men and all
the beautiful hallucinations of December, wearing
the masks of the Ordinary, the Annoyed, the Tired.
The Disturbed.
The Sane.

Only the recovering addict with his bucket and bell
has dared to come here without one.

He is Salvation.
His eyes have burned
holes in his radiance.
Instead of a mask, he has
unbuttoned his face. 

About the Author

Laura Kasischke is the author of nine collections of poetry and seven novels. Her work has received many honors, including the Pushcart Prize, the Juniper Prize for Poetry, the Rilke Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her long-awaited Where Now: New and Selected Poems was published in 2017. She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her son and teaches at the University of Michigan MFA program in Ann Arbor.

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Reviews

“The future will not—should not—see us by one poet alone. But if there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.” —Boston Review