Description: The first full-length collection from Cisewski showcases the best work from this Minneapolis-based poet who has graced the pages of literary journals across the country for the past decade. These poems, full of charm and wit, demonstrate an airy playfulness even as they confront isolation and loss. We were lucky enough to lure her from the bright lights of more prominent poetry contests and prizes, and it is with great enthusiasm that we present her work to you.
Brief description: Paula Cisewski is the author of GHOST FARGO (Nightboat Books, 2010), UPON ARRIVAL (Black Ocean, 2006), and the chapbook How Birds Work (Fuori Editions, 2002). She lives in Minneapolis where she teaches writing and humanities classes and hosts the Imaginary Press Reading Series. It's pronounced shi-ZEHv-ski.
Review Quotes: "Paula Cisewski loves language. Language and metaphor in the face of human heartbreak and desire. 'I am now prepared / to feel my way down the dark sides...' she writes, 'And still, we flew.' Language and metaphor in the face of loneliness and sorrow. 'A trainwreck, ' she writes, 'that for eternity never / happens is perfect because / the brakes fail and fail and / still it smokes down / tracks that run through / a small town in me.' Such a refreshing, distinctive first book of poems." --Ralph Angel