All This Could Be Yours, Poems by Laurie Blauner
“I am trying to say something else,” Laurie Blauner begins one poem in her breathtaking collection All This Could Be Yours. “The abstract made flesh.” Blauner’s poems are startling in their attention to the demands of the flesh, its constant need to sense the world physically as well as spiritually. Teeming with the sounds and sights of the earth, Blauner’s poems immerse the reader in her world—and our own.
Sample Poems by Laurie Blauner
Praise for Laurie Blauner
“…a fine poet with a masterly command of language and imagery…”—James Welch, author of Riding the Earthboy 40
“This is Laurie Blauner’s fifth poetry collection, and, in my judgment, her strongest. Blauner has a rich fantasy life, which the rigors of everyday living are seldom able to dislodge. All This Could Be Yours abounds in highly original metaphors that readers will discover for themselves.”—Madeline DeFrees, author of Blue Dusk
Laurie Blauner’s first book of poetry, Other Lives, was published in 1984. Her second was titled Self-Portrait with an Unwilling Landscape and was published in 1989. Both were published by Owl Creek Press, as was her third poetry book called Children of Gravity, which won a 1995 King County Publication award. Her fourth book of poems, Facing the Facts, was published in 2002 by Orchises Press. Laurie Blauner’s poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and Field among others. She has received several Seattle Arts Commission and King County Arts grants and an NEA grant in poetry.
Her first novel, Somebody, won a King County Arts Commission award and was published by Black Heron Press in 2003. She has received an Artist Trust grant in fiction and has published short stories in several magazines including the Wisconsin Review and Talking River Review. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
ISBN: 1933456388, 112 pages, $17.00