Lost Alphabet - by Lisa Olstein (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In a mysterious locale, a naturalist becomes engulfed in the study of moths and light.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>"This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry."--<i>Library Journal</i></p><p>"Most appealing is Olstein's sensitive, quietly pained and earnest tone, w hich, more than the unusual subject, is the real star of this book."--<i>Publishers Weekly, </i>starred review</p><p>In Lisa Olstein's daring new book, an unnamed lepidopterist--living in a hut on the edge of an unnamed village--is drawn ever deeper into the engrossing world of moths, light, and seeing. Structured as a naturalist's notebook, the four-part sequence of prose poems create a layered pilgrimage into the consequences of intensive study, the trials of being an outsider, and the process of metamorphosis. In an interview, Olstein once said, "I don't want poetry to limit itself to reflecting or recapitulating experience; I want it to <i>be</i> an experience."</p><p><i>I have learned to peer at specimens through a small crack at the center of my fist. It's a habit herders use for distance: vision is concentrated, the crude tunnel brings into focus whatever small expanse lies on the other side, something in the narrowing magnifies what remains. At the table, my hand tires of clenching, my left eye of closing, my right of its squint, but the effect: a blurred carpet of wing becomes a careful weave of eyelashes colored, curved, exquisitely laid . . .</i></p><p><b>Lisa Olstein</b> is the author of the Hayden Carruth Award-winning volume <i>Radio Crackling, Radio Gone</i>. She earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts and directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action in Amherst, Massachusetts.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>This poet brings a sparkling consciousness to the page and an exciting new voice to American poetry. -Library Journal Sometimes nervous, often restrained, occasionally playful, the energy that pulses in the veins of these poems is always palpable.--Cold Front [V]ivid, arresting detail. --Publishers Weekly While the poems in this book often operate as sanctuary, the speaker's signal turns siren, resulting in an eerie and emphatic alarm to alert us to the dangers of the conscious world.--Ploughshares<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Lisa Olstein was born in 1972 and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a BA from Barnard and a MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, undertaking additional studies at Harvard Divinity School. Her debut volume, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, won the prestigious Hayden Carruth Award. She currently directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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