Stratification

by Meghan Punschke

"Meghan Punschke resides in New York City, and has an MFA in Poetry from The New School. She is the curator and host of Word of Mouth, a reading series dedicated to poets and fiction writers. She is also the Poetry Editor for the literary journal MiPOesias. Please visit www.megpunschke.com for more info. All the wondrous stratifications of water, atmosphere, myth, history, society and (of course) the chills and fevers of colloquial lives are rigorously plotted in this dense, layered, disconcerting book. I know of few poems as insistently scrutinizing but empathetic, or as simultaneously devastating and resplendent. ~Robert Polito had to read these poems out loud. They have rhyme, rhythm, anger, sweetness, sex. They've got some big words and big plans. They have a story told in stories. Try them with your voice. . . Get up and move around a little! ~ Kate Greenstreet"

90 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2008