Animal

Lasky has a devoted and energetic fanbase who are drawn to her accessible yet emotionally powerful poems. Lasky is, along with Alex Dimitrov, a founder and astrologer for the Astro Poets, which currently has 413K followers on twitter. This is a wonderful and rare insight into Lasky’s poetics and the ways it is informed by books, theory, film, art, and the occult. The simple four-topic format belies a fascinatingly interconnected thematic structure anchored by an inspiring sense of human wildness and the powers of poetic subjectivity. This is the third book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and will further articulate the series’ diverse approaches to poetics. The first two works in the series-by Joshua Beckman and Terrance Hayes-are gaining more and more visibility and praise, the Hayes being positively reviewed recently in the New York Times.