Description: Poetry. "Just as the Bertolt Brecht the book invokes, Monika Zobel's AN INSTRUMENT FOR LEAVING sings to us of the dark and abundant pain of living, the very sadness of being, the wonder of the colorful objects of life, and everything else that makes electric joy and electric pain the twin pleasures of living."--Dorothea Lasky
Brief description: Monika Zobel's poems and translations have recently appeared in Bayou Magazine, Four Way Review, Redivider, DIAGRAM, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, Drunken Boat, Guernica Magazine, and West Branch. She is Senior Editor at The California Journal of Poetics--an online journal for poetry, criticism, reviews, and interviews--and the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Austria. Monika currently lives and teaches in Bremen, Germany.