The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House
by Nick Lantz
University of Wisconsin Press, 2010
Paper: 978-0-299-23584-0 | eISBN: 978-0-299-23583-3 (all)
Library of Congress Classification PS3612.A586L54 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and microscopic—the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and re-naming a family’s short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption. Lantz never lets his subjects or his readers off the hook, plunging head first into worlds that are both eccentric and familiar, alarming and hopeful.
Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year
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