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In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human." Working in the tradition of the flaneur, Lederer charts her speakers' interior landscapes according to the city's highly monetized geography, viewing life in the big city through the lens of expenditure—not just of money, but of all that money signifies. In poems that are both heartfelt and ...

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In The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer draws on her experience as both acclaimed younger poet and "brainworker" at a hedge fund in midtown Manhattan to produce an uncannily prescient work of high lyric. Though on its surface The Heaven-Sent Leaf addresses that most taboo of subjects—money—what it ultimately confronts is what it means to be, as Wallace Stevens put it, "finally human." Working in the tradition of the flaneur, Lederer charts her speakers' interior landscapes according to the city's highly monetized geography, viewing life in the big city through the lens of expenditure—not just of money, but of all that money signifies. In poems that are both heartfelt and ruthlessly critical of our current financial milieu, in which the fates of individuals are packaged, priced out, and then bundled for sale on the open market, Lederer proves Robert Graves's famous observation wrong: though there may be no money in poetry, there is indeed poetry in money.

"Sparkling and strange, acrobatic but never evasive, clear-eyed about its own emotional life even as it takes semantics for a tumble, Katy Lederer's book-length sequence of not-quite-sonnets measures up to its contemporaries as a chronicle of love in and out of a life, in dramatis personae and in the poet's own soul: it excels all those contemporaries, and swerves away from almost all its precedents, in following at once the love and the money."—Stephen Burt

"These lyrically crisp poems chronicle the poet (gendered female) as 'brainworker' in contemporary New York. Where is prayer? Where nature? Where love? They are not to be found on the dizzying streetscape as seen from the top of an office building, but in the head and the heart of the poet buffeted by money-drenched dreams. 'I hate to be alone' Lederer writes, in the perfect 'Parable of Times Square.' But in this poem, and indeed this book, the remedy to the cold solitude of cash-getting is not other people but poetry."—Jennifer Moxley

Katy Lederer is the author of the poetry collection Winter Sex (Wave Books, 2002) and the memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown Publishers, 2003), which Publishers Weekly included on its list of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2003 and Esquire named one of its eight Best Books of the Year in 2003.

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Publishers Weekly

The 45 almost-sonnets in this second collection from Lederer (Winter Sex) meditate on money and commerce ("The earth is a dollar and the moon is a silvery coin"), wondering how to find meaning as a cog in a capitalist machine. At times, the poems yearn to be free of big business, but the vibrancy of this series is found in the viscous push-pull between money and Eros; the tension sings ("I've brought you all these presents which I've placed beneath this/ flowering tree:/ Bright red box, bright blue box, and a small vial of Botox"). In an era when business asks, "Who stole my cheese?" these poems are populated with superbly chosen allusions to finance and literature. "Heaven-sent Leaf" comes from Goethe; "Brainworker," the title of several poems, was coined by the influential economist J.K. Galbraith. Nietzsche and Lyn Hejinian, among others, also appear. At times, Lederer's verse is sparkling, though a meandering prosiness sometimes flattens the lines. But at her best, Lederer combines musical lines with excitingly jerky leaps of thought, claiming for poetry a fact that usually seems farthest from it: "There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit." (Oct.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781934414156
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
  • Publication date: 10/1/2008
  • Pages: 72
  • Sales rank: 742,923
  • Series: American Poets Continuum Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Katy Lederer
Katy Lederer
Following in the tradition of bestselling memoirists riffing on their dysfunctional families -- think Mary Karr (The Liars' Club) and Augusten Burroughs (Running with Scissors), award-winning poet Katy Lederer "pokes" fun at her unconventional childhood at the gambling tables in Poker Face -- a 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.

Good To Know

In our interview, Lederer shared some fascinating facts with us:

"I used to think the devil lived on one side of my bedroom and God on the other."

"My first job was working in the records department of the local city hospital, which meant I knew about all of the private medical histories of my neighbors."

"I swear a lot."

"As far as my readers are concerned (as in people who have read either my memoir and/or my poetry): I have tried to be as honest as possible, but I doubt I've succeeded."

    1. Hometown:
      New York, New York
    1. Date of Birth:
      August 17, 1972
    2. Place of Birth:
      Concord, New Hampshire
    1. Education:
      B.A., UC Berkeley, 1995; M.F.A. in Poetry. Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 1998
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