Lisa Lubasch
Lisa Lubasch is an American poet.
Life
She received her BA in English from Yale University, an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Lubasch is the author of five collections of poetry, including So I Began, Twenty-One After Days, To Tell the Lamp, and How Many More of Them Are You? which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Selections from How Many More of Them Are You? were translated into French in 2002 and appear as a chapbook in Un bureau sur l'Atlantique's Format Américain series.[1]
Lubasch has been an editor of Double Change, a French-American poetry web journal.[2]
Lubasch lives in New York City. She coedits the press Solid Objects, out of Brooklyn, NY.[3]
Awards
- 2000 Norma Farber First Book Award, How Many More of Them Are You?
- 2005-2006 The Gertrude Stein Awards, Twenty-One After Days
Works
- "Certain Hazards of Living Without the Assumption of Timing". Web Conjunctions. September 2002.
- "Getting Around It". Boston Review. April 2014.
- "The Situation/Evidence". A Public Space. Summer 2008.
- "Lisa Lubasch on 'The Situation/Evidence' at the Poetry Society of America".
- "[Out of Inventiveness—Looking]". Jubilat #10.
- "Ordering Things". Electronic Poetry Review #3. September 2003.
- "Ordering Things 2". Electronic Poetry Review #3. September 2003.
- "Ordering Things 3". Electronic Poetry Review #3. September 2003.
- "[lampshades will admit of the spectacular—are they hosts to other things?]". Boston Review. Summer 2005.
- "This in Branch Will Catch; Winter Enters Fretfully; Lightness Is Unfolding". Coconut Poetry.
Poetry Books
- So I Began. Solid Objects. 2014. ISBN 978-0-9844142-5-3.
- Twenty-One After Days. Avec Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-880713-37-2.
- To Tell the Lamp. Avec. 2004. ISBN 978-1-880713-33-4.
- Vicinities. Avec. 2001. ISBN 978-1-880713-27-3.
- How Many More of Them Are You?. Avec. 1999. ISBN 978-1-880713-19-8.
Translation
- Paul Éluard (2007). A Moral Lesson. Green Integer. ISBN 978-1-931243-95-7.
- Paul Éluard (March–April 2006). "Clock of Secret Weddings; Memories and the Present". Green Integer Review #2.
- "Everything is One; The Seven Veils; The Despair Need to Love". Double Change. 2003.
Reviews
Twenty-One After Days is Lubasch’s fourth book of poems. In the first, How Many More of Them Are You?, she had already found a voice; each volume since has deepened the complexity and range of her poetic project. Ironically, this deepening has taken the form of an increased focus on the poetics of failure, incompletion, and errancy; a quieting of the speaker; an interest in what falls into the interstices of meaning. The more confident and lyrical the work becomes, the more the speaker “murkily invokes/ its own despair.” The failures of sunlight in this book point to a truth of the larger work: Lubasch’s poetry is most engaged at the points “where light has splintered,” revealing “severance of each thing.” [4]
References
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=uBhBHAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:Lisa+inauthor:Lubasch&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0
- ↑ http://www.doublechange.org
- ↑ http://www.solidobjects.org/about.html
- ↑ DAVID GOLDSTEIN (March 31, 2008). "TWENTY-ONE AFTER DAYS by LISA LUBASCH". galatea resurrects #9.