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I Was Bonnie and Clyde

I Was Bonnie and Clyde

Kasischke, Laura

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1556597312
ISBN13: 9781556597312
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

As technology and consumerism inch to the forefront of society, I Was Bonnie and Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death.


In Kasischke's newest collection, every moment contains an infinity: the mundane in the monumental, and the monumental in the mundane. I Was Bonnie and Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death, from that last suitcase circling / its last loop / for all of eternity to the mole / hauled out of the ground / by the dog / to die in the sun. Ghosts haunt and heighten these poems as they draw upon the independent weariness of women throughout history: Bonnie Parker, Lady Godiva, Amy Winehouse, a handbook's unnamed perfect hostess. Lovingly self-effacing, Kasischke evokes vulnerability, disbelief, and tragedy with a quiet, conversational reverence. With wordplay and exclamation, lament and ironic humor, these poems invite as they reflect, reaching out to a forbidding world.

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