Marriage Bones

By Lauren Levato

Product description These poems "expertly balance the tension between what we gain and lose in our relationships . . . ." These elegant and graceful poems have the power of the simple line of the scalpel's edge as it cuts in order to heal. Review 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 xpertly 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) 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). About the Author Writer, artist, and feminist activist Lauren Levato is literary editor for Ink & Ashes :