The Largest Possible Life
"The best poems from Alison Luterman's first poetry collection, The Largest Possible Life, have the feel of having been artfully lifted from precise moments of intimacy and betrayal, and they are imbued with the beautiful impossibility of hope in a world that seems in mourning for its own lost chances. Yet what balances this tightrope walk on the edge of hip nihilism, or clever confessionalism, is a fine and finely tuned artistic irony. Irony in the old way meant not only a strangely truthful diction turned somehow askew, but an irony of form as well: a music of line and an urgently human way of peaking seamlessly woven together. Even more, this is a book of delight and surprise, and of delicately comic turns of phrase. Out of the corner of her eye, Alison Luterman is a keen watcher of the tangled business of our lives, and in her heart, she is a storyteller whose power resides, as in all good storytellers' hearts, in her faith in the listener."
- Bruce Weigl
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Everything At Its Core is Pure
Choosing It
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"Unified by the restless, shape-shifting, insatiable, photographic, harmonic, deeply and broadly human consciousness of the poet, the core unit of Alison's poetry is simply The Poem. The title of her first book, The Largest Possible Life, encapsulates for me the capacious, striving sensibility of this remarkable poet." —
Gerald Locklin, 2008 Judge
I Confess
Reasons To Live
Willing
But I Can't Talk Now
The Quilts From Gee's Bend
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