Her Book
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"Exacting, and at the same time utterly magical." --ADA LIMÓN
With intelligence and crystalline clarity, a chorus of female voices speaks through the poems in Her book, Éireann Lorsung's luminous second collection.
Full of youth, wonder, and imagination, Her book crosses distances and generations to celebrate the lives of women, their individual and shared experiences, and the bonds that bring them together. This is also a book about translation (of experience into art, of knowledge across time and space), conversation (with, for instance, work by the artist Kiki Smith), and friendship (especially those made during Lorsung's time in England). In these poems, the female body rises from a foundation of stars. Songbirds are cut from paper and stormy light. And letters arrive, and disappear, mysteries contained within.
"Part ecstatic recollection of the many ways places and objects leave their indelible marks upon our bodies and brains, and part timeless ode to the strange female beast that pounds inside of us all" (Ada Limón), Her book is both an inspired work from Lorsung and, fundamentally, her book--poems belonging to all women.
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--Kathleen Jesme "Part ecstatic recollection of the many ways places and objects leave their indelible marks upon our bodies and brains, and part timeless ode to the strange female beast that pounds inside of us all, Her book resurrects the enchanting power of personal and historically feminine mythology. Exacting, and at the same time utterly magical, Lorsung's work opens a door to an unusually radiant universe where everything within is set ablaze by pure wonderment."
--Ada Limón "Éireann Lorsung's Her book has something of the gurlesque to it: 'The most gentle apocalypse in the world.' But this will lead the reader, with remarkable sureness, not toward the viscera of the gender spectacle revealed via exaggeration, but rather into the miniature, the closely observed, the travesties and utopias of the quietest moments. It is from these moments that the whole is constructed, the molecules that compose both her book and her life in a 'Collision of the cellular level and the structures.' It is an aching and eloquent whole indeed."
--Joshua Clover "There is always a voice in Lorsung's book 'calling you to wilderness, ' and the result is pitch-perfect language coupled with astounding imagery. These highly confident poems make up a wonderful debut collection."
--American Poet "In this amazing first book, Éireann Lorsung enters deeply into the everyday--only to emerge awestruck, open, and generous. In her hands both the world and the word are transformed into something radiant."
--Nick Flynn "Music for Landing Planes By is a young woman's loves song to the planet. Images flock from a vivid pastoral world, uncarded fleece, wrens in thatch, chaff, lathe, and hasp, joining the speaker in her effort to stitch prayer and dream, city and country, into one shimmering fabric of ardor."
--Leslie Adrienne Miller
