Vanitas Rough Paperback by Lisa Russ Spaar

Product Details

• Publisher: Persea Books (2012-12-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 80 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892554201
• Item Weight: 90.72 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

“Spaar sounds like no other poet writing today.”—Jennifer Chang, The Believer

With her trademark language—baroque yet colloquial, immediately recognizable but impossible to duplicate—Lisa Russ Spaar has written her most sumptuous, alluring, and steamy poems to date, each one bursting with an appetite for the sensuous and the lingual. “Is syntax erotic?” she asks in Vanitas, Rough. “If so, please. Please read. Here.”

About the Author

Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of a novel, Paradise Close; six acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems; and The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry, a collection of poetry history and criticism. She was a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Spaar has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry, and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors and awards. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where for many years she directed the MFA program.