{"product_id":"thunderbird-paperback-2","title":"Thunderbird - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDorothea Lasky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be.--Julia Bloch, \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret.--InDigest Magazine, InDigest Picks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the purple motel \/ where the bird lives. Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. \u003ci\u003eThunderbird\u003c\/i\u003e's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaby of air\u003cbr\u003eYou rose into the mystical\u003cbr\u003eSide of things\u003cbr\u003eYou could no longer live with us\u003cbr\u003eWe put you in a little home\u003cbr\u003eWhere they shut and locked the door\u003cbr\u003eAnd at night\u003cbr\u003eYou blew out\u003cbr\u003eAnd went wandering . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothea Lasky\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAWE\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothea Lasky is the author of \u003ci\u003eThunderbird\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), \u003ci\u003eBlack Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2010), and \u003ci\u003eAWE\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of six chapbooks: \u003ci\u003eMatter: A Picturebook\u003c\/i\u003e (Argos Books, 2012), \u003ci\u003ePoetry is Not a Project\u003c\/i\u003e (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), \u003ci\u003eTourmaline\u003c\/i\u003e (Transmission Press, 2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Hatmaker's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eArt\u003c\/i\u003e (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and \u003ci\u003eAlphabets and Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, MAKE magazine, Phoebe, Poets \u0026amp; Writers Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e6x6\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, University of Pennsylvania, Fashion Institute of Technology, Heath Elementary School, and Munroe Center for the Arts and has done educational research at the New York Hall of Science, Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Philadelphia Zoo, and Project Zero. Currently, she researches creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165332017287,"sku":"9781933517636","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9ee9983f801168e1a0026a7d4c9173dd.webp?v=1733312791","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/thunderbird-paperback-2","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}