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True Mistakes

True Mistakes

Moses-Schmitt, Lena

Paperback

Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1682262707
ISBN13: 9781682262702
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: Mar 14 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Finalist, 2025 Miller Williams Poetry Prize

In her debut collection True Mistakes, the poet Lena Moses-Schmitt unleashes her powers of scrutiny on herself and on works of art to interrogate the essential nature of consciousness, identity, and time.

As the poet goes about daily life-taking long walks, painting at her desk, going to work, grappling with the deaths of friends, struggling with anxiety and depression-she ruminates on the boundaries between art and reality, grief and joy, living and imagining. For Moses-Schmitt, thought, like painting, is relentlessly high-stakes: I often think about things so hard / I kill them. And: Is it possible to paint myself so precisely / I disappear? Can I remember myself / so completely I'm erased? In the context of such ruminations, the poet's reflections on David Hockney's seminal pool paintings shimmer with sublimity and insight.

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