Late Empire

"Olstein places the mystical next to the mundane. . . . She explodes theories of cause and effect and expands our notions of logic, symbolism, and the territory between dreams and waking experience." The Growler Poetry Review

In her fourth booka gorgeous call-to-arms in the face of our current social and political conditionsLisa Olstein employs her signature wit, wordplay, candor, and absurdity in poems that are her most personaland politicalto date. Like a brilliant dinner conversation that ranges from animated discussions of politics, philosophy, and religion to intimate considerations of motherhood, friendship, and eros, Olstein's voice is immediately approachable yet uncomfortably at home in the American empire.

From "Essay Means to Try":

Already during these two weeks of cryingI've purchased seven books each of whichfelt important to own and taken one hundredand forty vitamins and filled...