The Last Usable Hour

“The poems of Landau's stunning second collection are dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Landau's intimate, lonely poems are profoundly engaged with the experience of the self in its starkest moments: when it is deprived, nocturnal, barely lingual...She creates a deeply erotic and resonant encounter between the lyric I and its solitude." —The Boston Review

“She is both confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. Her...