ROME: Poems

ROME: Poems

<p><strong>“Fearlessly frank” and “unabashedly vulnerable” (Tracy K. Smith), Dorothea Lasky’s <em>ROME</em> confronts love and heartbreak in the modern world.</strong></p> Dorothea Lasky is one of the most talented American poets of her generation. With haunting lines that “recall Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg” (<em>Chicago Tribune</em>) and influences ranging from Drake to Catullus, Lasky fuses the ancient world with the fierceness and heartbreak of everyday life. With each new book, from the grand religiosity of <em>AWE</em> to the flat sadness and nihilism of <em>Black Life</em> to the witchery of <em>Thunderbird</em>, her poems keep gaining an increasingly robust readership and have influenced an entire generation of younger poets. In <em>ROME</em>, Lasky finds herself in the arena of eternal longing and heartsick desire, confronting her ghosts and demons and proving she’s “one of the very best poets we’ve got” (Maggie Nelson).