After I Was Dead: Poems

by Laura Mullen

Book by Mullen, Laura

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Laura Mullen is the author of nine books: EtC (Solid Objects 2023), Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject and Dark Archive, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. Her work has been widely anthologized and is included in American Hybrid (Norton), and I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues). She is the Kenan Chair in the Humanities at Wake Forest University.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fueled my concept of found poetry and art in poetry.

[Parker Logan · Rating 4 out of 5]

There were some poems in this that kinda hovered in the abstract for me, but the ones that hit hit. Also a very well organized collection.

[Kevin Aldrich · Rating 5 out of 5]

i learned that i probably do, deep down, like idaho.

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh, I read most of this. I'm not Mullen's reader by any means--I found this hard to get into, which I think was the point. An interesting project that I might just be too dumb for.

[Mark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was going to throw at 2 star at this or maybe a 1 star, but the second half of the book saved it for me...as in this line, "I dreamt you were fucking a chocolate cake."