Overview :In 1971, orphan Marlise Schade--fourteen, anorectic, and evicted from the psychiatric hospital her trust fund can no longer support--finds h... Read More
Overview :"American girlhood, with its anorexia and Girl Scout merit badges, piano recitals and razored self-mutilations, is the shattered 'glass town... Read More
Overview :With her trademark language baroque yet colloquial, immediately recognizable but impossible to duplicate Lisa Russ Spaar has written her mos... Read More
Overview :Thrumming with the triune hungers of mind, mouth, and spirit, Lisa Russ Spaar's fifth book plumbs daily life in order to transcend it, disco... Read More
Overview :Lisa Russ Spaar has assembled a collection of poems about London to appeal to most anyone: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair t... Read More
Overview :It is the rare individual who has not, at one time or another, been kept awake for hours on end--as the rest of the world, maddeningly, appe... Read More
Overview :Lisa Russ Spaar's seventh full-length collection of poems, Soul Cake, which takes its title from an ancient mummer/wassailer's carol, leans... Read More
Overview :Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Introduction by Nick Flynn. From 2010 to 2012, Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning ... Read More
Overview :Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a nat... Read More
Overview :A woman's journey to uncover the fate of seven RCAF crewmen who perished in the Second World War.For most of her life, Lisa Russ knew little... Read More