Lightning Falls in Love

Lightning Falls in Love, Laura Kasischke's stunning twelfth poetry collection, makes magic with a complex alchemy of nostalgia and fire, bird wing and sorrow. In new poems that search a murky lake for news of the past, she evokes unsayabie trauma and gleans possibility. This is poetry that is transcedent in scope but grounded in the body, surreal yet suburban, reaching for clarity just beyond the fog of the day-to-day. Kasischke has found a new way to spin beauty and pull breath from that w...