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    612-822-4611

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Labor

Labor

Desiro, Lisa

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $9.95

ISBN10: 0999397133
ISBN13: 9780999397138
Publisher: Nixes Mate Books
Published: Mar 1 2018
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

I have to keep looking; try to see more, speak more, turn away less, says Lisa DeSiro in her fine first book, Labor. And this is what her poems do: they keep their eyes peeled, their ears open, and their hearts receptive. (Boston street bustle comes vividly alive in many of these poems.) But receptivity demands a tolerance for paradox, and DeSiro's poems--in disarmingly simple, idiomatic language--plumb the secrets of the world's contradictions. Go ahead, enjoy this day begins a poem titled 9/11 Anniversary, Public Garden. At home with the prose poem as well as the tightly rhymed lyric, DeSiro distills memorable music from the most colloquial moments--We were all thumbs on our dumb phones--and offers readers a vibrant panoply of sights and sounds, captured and conveyed in her impressively taut writing.

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