Awe
<div><p>If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like <I>Awe.</I> Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names and boldly pushing the boundaries of confession. The secrets she tells are truths we recognize in ourselves: “Be scared of yourself / The real self / Is very scary.â€</p><p> <b>Dorothea Lasky</b> was born in St. Louis in 1978. She is the author of several chapbooks and has attended Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.</p></div>