Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous, and intellectually charged work. In her tenth collection, Spell, Lauterbach activates the many meanings of spell: her sense that the world is under a spell from which it must awaken, to spells of passing weather, to her desire to spell out life's difficulties and wonders, and how single words (and their etymologies) might inform and enlighten our contemporary condition. In short poems, poem sequences, and a series of Conversations with Evening, Lauterbach calls upon all her imaginative resources to locate a new hybrid poetics of reality, with wit, urgency, and candor.

Penguin Books, 2018.
ISBN: 9780143133520. 136 pp.
Softcover. Near fine.