Description: Poetry at the Crossroads of the Ecstatic and the Profane
Review Quotes: Lara Egger's Flop Era is constantly surprising, a feverish consciousness issuing impressions at breakneck speed, the confessional poem as a testing ground in which the associative-surreal (a compound word I was forced to invent for Egger's work alone) becomes a baseline for reality, something the speaker cannot quite decide whether to accept or reject. Also: Is it me or everyone else? she asks. Egger's poems are full of volatility and hunger, invention and wisdom, humor and wit, evasion and honesty. It's high-voltage stuff--sometimes sexy, sometimes heartbreaking--for sure. You'll likely read Flop Era straight through and keep it in your to-reread pile for months, years...--David Dodd Lee, author of Downsides of Fish Culture and The Bay