Zero at the Bone (Paperback) - Common

by Stacie Cassarino

“‘Who ever said / there was a place for you?’ the poet cries out, and Zero at the Bone urges this anxious question in each highly-wrought fibre of its lines. Cassarino’s voice ranges far and near, from the gasp and sigh of creaturely love to the dizzying spaces of American distance, whiteness, silence. Few poets these days can draw their lines so strongly as to make the white space burn like ice, but these fine and focused meditations manage that, till the black scribble of life on the page animates an actual human heat, a speck of life resisting all cold, all loss, all emptiness, while never letting us lose sight of those Furies waiting hungrily in the wings.”—Glyn Maxwell

Genres: Poetry, Queer, LGBT

91 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2009

About the author

Stacie Cassarino is an American poet and author of the collection Zero at the Bone. She is a graduate of Middlebury College (BA, 1997), University of Washington (MA, 2000), and UCLA (PhD, 2014).

Cassarino has taught in the English departments at Middlebury College in Vermont, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and UCLA.

She has also worked as a private chef, and cooked at Babbo in New York City. She is a Copy Editor at ELLE.com.

Cassation lives Los Angeles and teaches at UCLA

Reviews

[Lindsey Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

Summer Solstice is one of my favorite poems of all time. The imagery is just gorgeous. All of the poems within Zero at the Bone come together to create a complete, beautifully curated work. Near perfection.

[Brenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for reading on a big chair in a cabin in Gouldsboro, Maine surrounded by chatting in-laws

[Loisa Fenichell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Desire! Fish! Deleuze epigraph!

[Amy H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reads like Mary Oliver and Joanna Klink
Wonderful, inspiring poetry

[Virg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many beautiful and insightful lines. This was a remarkable collection.

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the most profoundly beautiful book of poetry that I have ever read. Does anyone know what Cassarino is doing currently? Has she published anymore books?