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Podcast: Otherppl with Brad Listi
Episode: Episode 333 — Dorothea Lasky
Description: Dorothea Lasky is the guest. Her latest poetry collection, Rome, is available now from Liveright.Â
Maggie Nelson says
“Dorothea Lasky is one of the very best poets we've got. Her poems radiate weirdness and raw power; you can feel your mind grow new folds as you read them. They lay waste to milquetoast notions of poetic longing or melancholy, and instead go in for the vibrating, bloody facts of sadness, anger, desire, bare life, all returned to us more intensely, strangely, and sometimes comedically, by her words. The line is Lasky's measure, and she wields it like an axe she...