Dream Apartment by Lisa Olstein Paperback Book 9781556596742

In Dream Apartment Lisa Olstein builds a world of nightrabbits bodiless shadows and networks of wind where ode and elegy meetDevoted equally to the long arc and the sharp fragment Lisa Olsteins fifth collection maps the lucid ache at the center of night where quotdarkness stands infor lightquot certain heartbreaks never end and love dovetails with losing Immersed in ode as much as elegy Dream Apartment employs a dynamic range of forms Prayerlike spells cascade down the page with precision and abandon Arrowshot elegies explore the shock of suicide and find echoes in other kinds of griefindividual and communal animal and ecological sudden and creepingAgile narratives mirror the dazzling associative movement of unselfconscious thought the dreaming mind quotbodiless memoryquot Whether watching a stranger carry his dead dog out of a vets exam room or offering bouquets of peonies to nightforaging rabbits Dream Apartment is propelled by the way poems like dreams unfold new dimensions of time and space Casting their lines toward wish and repair recognition and reckoning these poems reveal how any meditation on loss is an exploration of love promising that in quotdreaming something...