Description: "A new collection of thought-provoking poems from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most innovative poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous, and intellectually charged work. In her tenth collection, Spell, Lauterbach activates the many meanings of "spell": her sense that the world is under a possibly evil spell from which it must awaken, to the simple spells of changing weather, to her desire to spell out the difficulties and wonders of contemporary life. In short poems, poem sequences, and a meditative "Conversation with the Evening," Lauterbach calls upon all her imaginative resources to locate a new hybrid poetics of reality, with wit, urgency, and incisive candor"--
Review Quotes: Praise for Ann Lauterbach's most recent collection, Under the Sign
"For almost four decades, Lauterbach has kept asking, in poem after allusive poem, how wisdom arrives, how senses make sense, how art matters and happens--and what love, and loss, have to do with it . . . her poems 'make nothing happen, ' except a way to think hard--and to hold out hope for thought to occur." --Boston Review "As a poet, Lauterbach is nothing if not versatile in content and form. . . . Her register is resolutely multivalent. . . . She challenges and enchants." --The Rumpus "Enacting insight, intuition, elegance, and humor, these poems are, in a phrase coined by fellow individualist Frederick Seidel, 'daggers that sing.'" --Rain Taxi