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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

“Promised Years” by Dorothea Lasky

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April 26, 2017
 

Promised Years

 
Dorothea Lasky
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About This Poem

 

"This poem is from a chapbook I just finished called Snakes, which should be out from Tungsten Press soon. The poem is about despair and the chapbook is about evil. For a long time, I have been obsessed with the language of political speech, particularly oration, and how it relates to the language poets use to represent their times."
—Dorothea Lasky

 

Dorothea Lasky is the author of Milk, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2018. She teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City.

 

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