Новинки Лоры Касишке

The critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Raising returns with a haunting and shadowy thriller about the love between a mother and daughter.

In her first collection of short stories, Laura Kasischke exposes the dark heart of the domestic—it's wrapped in shabby silk, tucked away in a dresser drawer. If A Stranger Approaches You reminds us that intersection of the bizarre and the quotidian is always at play. Memorial statues and raggedy dolls seem to come to life, a man listens to the electric menace of suburban power lines while he struggles with his failed marriage, and the little boy and his dog knocking on the door might be Death in disguise. Surreal and darkly comic, these are stories that know the unexpected graces and random collisions that drive and haunt us. As one of her narrators remarks, "What a thing, this life."

Парень-психопат устраивает бойню в школе. Он предлагает двум своим одноклассницам, Диане и Морин, самим выбрать, которую из них ему застрелить. И одна из девушек произносит роковые слова, прося убить не ее, а подругу… Диана становится взрослой, у нее прекрасный дом, замечательный муж, любимая дочь, и жизнь ее течет размеренно. Но реальна ли эта жизнь или она — всего лишь легкое облачко мечты, промелькнувшее перед мысленным взором?

Laura Kasischke's poems have the same haunting qualities and truth as our most potent memories and dreams. Through ghostly voices, fragmented narratives, overheard conversations, songs, and prayers in language reminiscent of medieval lyrics converted into contemporary idiom, the poems in Space, In Chains create a visceral strangeness true to its own music. So we found ourselves in an ancient place, the very air around us bound by chains. There was stagnant water in which lightning was reflected, like desperation in a dying eye. Like science. Like a dull rock plummeting through space, tossing off flowers and veils, like a bride.…

Парень-психопат устраивает бойню в школе. Он предлагает двум своим одноклассницам, Диане и Морин, самим выбрать, которую из них ему застрелить. И одна из девушек произносит роковые слова, прося убить не ее, а подругу... Диана становится взрослой, у нее прекрасный дом, замечательный муж, любимая дочь, и жизнь ее течет размеренно. Но реальна ли эта жизнь или она - всего лишь легкое облачко мечты, промелькнувшее перед мысленным взором?

Получив на День святого Валентина анонимную записку с призывом: "Будь моей!", преподавательница маленького мичиганского колледжа Шерри Сеймор не знает что и думать. Это дружеский розыгрыш или действительно она, хорошо сохранившаяся и благополучная замужняя женщина, еще в состоянии вызвать у кого-то бурную страсть? Между тем любовные послания начинают сыпаться одно за другим, и неожиданно для себя самой сорокалетняя Шерри с головой окунается в безумный роман, еще не подозревая, к каким драматическим событиям приведет ее внезапный взрыв чувств.

Book Description Gardening in the Dark , Kasischke's sixth book of poetry, continues to explore the transformative power of imagination. Her poems take us to the flip side of human consciousness, where anything can happen at any time. Tinged

Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment the future she was just imagining - a doting wife and mother at the age of forty - is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make. In prose infused with the dramatically feminine sensuality of spring, we experience seventeen-year-old Diana's uncertain steps into womanhood - her awkward, heated forays into sex; her fresh, fragile construction of an identity. Together with the sights and sounds of renewal, we experience the tasks of Diana's adulthood: protecting…

When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been "becoming sixteen" - falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her babyfat, discovering sex - her mother has been slowly withdrawing.

As Kat and her impassive father pick up the pieces of their daily lives, she finds herself curiously unaffected by her mother's absence. But in dreams that become too real to ignore, she's haunted by her mother's cries for help.

Finally, she must act on her instinct that something violent and evil has occurred - a realization that brings Kat to a chilling discovery.

Leila Murry is young, married, and working in a motel as a receptionist - and then as a prostitute. The seemingly random abuses and perils of her adult life parallel those Leila suffered as a child, and in reliving them she is uncertain whether she will survive them this time, or indeed, if she wishes to. This "extremely powerful debut" tells a story that is at once "profoundly disturbing but also resonant with hope and rebirth" -Los Angeles Times.

High profile poet whose last book, Gardening in the Dark (Ausable 2004) was chosen by Time Magazine as «One of 7 Poetry Books to Curl Up With.» It also received a rave review in the NY Times and was a NY Times Editor's Choice pick. Kasischke was interviewed on New Letters on the Air, a nationally syndicated public radio literary program in February 2006. Kansas City Star interviewed Kasischke on January 2006. Published in Best American Poetry 2006.

"Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of imagery and the subtle, ingenious way she turns a phrase."— Austin American-Statesman The Infinitesimals stares directly at illness and death, employing the same highly evocative and symbolic style that earned Laura Kasischke the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Drawing upon her own experiences with cancer, and the lives and deaths of loved ones, Kasischke's new work commands a lyrical and dark intensity. Laura Kasischke is the author of eight collections of poetry and seven novels. She teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“Kasischke astonishes with her lyricism and metaphorical power.” —Publishers Weekly

“Every poem is exquisitely crafted, with crisp, clean lines and imagery that dazzles.”—The Washington Post

“For Kasischke… poetry is a kind of revenge on the existential limits that it describes”—Los Angeles Review of Books

Laura Kasischke’s long-awaited selected poems presents the breadth of her probing vision that subverts the so-called “normal.” A lover of fairy tales, Kasischke showcases her command of the symbolic, with a keen attention to sound in her exploration of the everyday—whether reflections on loss or the complicated realities of childhood and family. As literary critic Stephen Burt wrote in Boston Review, “The future will not see us by one poet alone….If there is any justice in that future, Kasischke is one of the poets it will choose.”

This incandescent volume makes the case that Laura Kasischke is one of America’s great poets, and her presence is secure.

From "Dear Water":

I am your lost daughter and, as always, you
are listening & fish. Though
I sift you for sunlight, it
runs from me in glistening pins, vanishes
in the wavering map
of your ungraspable heart. When I
reach in, you
swallow my cold hands again, swallow
the joy they'd hold. . .
Laura Kasischke is a poet and novelist whose fiction has been made into several feature-length films. Her book of poems, Space, in Chains, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She currently teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Chelsea, Michigan.

From Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes, comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unforgettable , Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense.