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Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and microscopic—the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and re-naming a family’s short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption. Lantz never lets his subjects or his readers off the hook, plunging head first into worlds that are both eccentric and familiar, alarming and hopeful.
Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year
Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year
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Nick Lantz is a writer and editor in Madison, Wisconsin, and a former Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, winner of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize.
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What can be said about grace
that does not diminish it?
To play a drunk, the best actors pretend to be sober.The street mime ladles water
from his leaky canoe.
Of the blind dog and the three-legged rabbit he chases, only
one can be lucky tonight. Our cousins race
every train
to its crossing on principle; it’s no surprise they win.
—excerpt from “Conditional”
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that does not diminish it?
To play a drunk, the best actors pretend to be sober.The street mime ladles water
from his leaky canoe.
Of the blind dog and the three-legged rabbit he chases, only
one can be lucky tonight. Our cousins race
every train
to its crossing on principle; it’s no surprise they win.
—excerpt from “Conditional”
© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
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