Product Description: If poems are "levers of transcendence," as Edward Hirsch argues, then "In All Their Animal Brilliance" offers a collection of pry bars, each designed to jar the reader loose from the mundane. Occasion is everywhere, whether it's a bloody thumb print in a library book, a tarantula climbing one's arm, a young father thawing his wife's milk in the microwave, or a boy who sits down on a platter in an Amherst backyard and waits for Emily Dickinson to winch him into higher whiteness...read more

Product Description: Erasable Walls is a series of elegant personal meditations on the always evolving self. These beautifully crafted poems show a degree of mastery that's rare in a first book. Though quiet and subtle, Larsen's voice is also nervy and truth-telling, with considerable cumulative power...read more