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Lauren Levato

Marriage Bones, 2006

Poems by Lauren Levato
32 pp., 5 1/4" x 7 1/4",
saddle-stitched paperback
ISBN: 1-933126-08-6

To schedule Ms. Levato for readings, lectures, or other literary events
see www(dot)laurenlevato(dot)com.

• Author Profile - click here to expand profile

  • Writer, artist, and feminist activist Lauren Levato is literary editor for
    Ink & Ashes :: a journal of the senses and editor for PISTIL. Her writing has
    appeared in after hours, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, and
    Wicked Alice. She holds degrees in professional writing and women's studies
    from Purdue University and studied political journalism at Georgetown
    University. Her awards include a poetry fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.

Review Comments:

Lauren Levato's work moves across the physical and emotional terrain with a startling accuracy,
exhibiting an almost tremulous, distinctly bodily, sense of urgency and obsession. "I'm wearing
a hairnet to keep it all together . . . ." They expertly balance the tension between what we gain
and lose in our relationships - between desire and violation. Each poem holds us at the cusp
of chaos and shakes.
                - Kristy Bowen, author of The Fever Almanac (Ghost Road Press);
                  publisher of Dancing Girl Press

These are bones to feast on. With assured craft, Lauren Levato strips away the familiar flesh
from such usual poetry suspects as love, sex, marriage, birth and death to expose a nerve-raw
hidden world of secrets and lies, psychic scars, "unsaid desires and accomplished fears."
Spare, graceful, startling, erotic and fearlessly feminist, the poems flat-out refuse to be glib
or superficial, insisting instead on burrowing under our skin to find the bone-hard ring of truth.
                - Pamela Miller, author of Recipe for Disaster (Mayapple Press).

Contents - Click Table of Contents to see the story titles

• Table of Contents
  •   1    Three Moments
  •   3    Rubies and Emeralds, City of Lies
  •   4    Possess
  •   5    Bull and Frog
  •   7    Directions for At-Home Test for the Detection of a Pregnancy
  •   9    Anthropomorphism: Corvine
  • 10    Hair Has No Bones
  • 11    Plantation
  • 12    Mother Fabric
  • 13    Calling Herself a Teacup
  • 14    Mind. Set.
  • 15    In Bones
  • 16    Marriage Bones
  • 17    Knots
  • 18    Toro, Cielo, Sirena
  • 21    Falling Clover

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