🎭 Culture Sep 4, 2026 · Luke Dunne

A Poem Is Full of Meat: Dorothea Lasky on Mother

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A Poem Is Full of Meat: Dorothea Lasky on Mother
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Dorothea Lasky, via Wikimedia Commons; licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (left). Mother, Wave Books (right).
Across ten collections of poetry and prose, Dorothea Lasky has shown herself to be a writer of formidable range. One of her books is based on The Shining; another, about Sappho, is forthcoming. Memory, her most recent collection of nonfiction, includes essays about fashion, Satanism, David Hockney, roses, anger, and Bernadette Mayer. But this omnivorousness belies a unified sensibility, one dra

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