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The Best Lover
Laura Boss' newest collection The Best Lover continues the author's signature style of audacious, irreverent, ironic narrative poems that somehow often fuse heartbreak, humor and intensity in unflinchingly honest poems that explore both family relationships and lovers, including living with the "L'Enfant Terrible" Beat poet that Allen Ginsberg called the best poet of the last quarter of the 20th Century. This book examines the grief that follows a long term relationship, 9/11, internet dating, the randomness of fate and the way choices made or not made affect the course of our lives. Baudelaire said, "the worst sin of poetry is to be boring." Laura Boss' poems are never boring. Ultimately, the book transcends its author's journey and becomes an adventure of survival with which each reader can identify.
80 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 2017
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About the author
Laura Boss
22 books8 followersLaura Boss is an American award-winning poet. She was a first prize winner in Poetry Society of America’s Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. Laura was the sole representative of the United States at the XXVI Annual International Struga Poetry Readings in Yugoslavia. Awards for her writing also include an American Literary Translators Award (funded through the National Endowment for the Arts), and three Fellowships in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She received the first International Poetry Award at the International Poetry Festival at Swansea, Wales (sponsored by Cross-Cultural Communications and Seventh Quarry Magazine of Wales).
Her collections of poetry include Stripping (Chantry Press, 1982) the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986). Her book, Reports from the Front (CCC, 1995) was nominated for an American Book Award. Arms: New and Selected Work was published by Guernica Editions in 1999. Flashlight, also published by Guernica, is her most recent collection.
Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and in the anthology The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications). In 1998, her manuscript was a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.
Laura is the founder and Editor of Lips poetry magazine.
She has given readings at the United Nations, the Dodge Poetry Festival, Princeton University, the New York Public Library, the Women’s Spirituality Festival and numerous other venues.
A long time Dodge Poet, Laura has led sessions for many years in their “Spring & Fountain” program for teachers.
In 2014, Laura co-edited with John Gallaher, Time Is a Toy: Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt (University of Akron).
Her collections of poetry include Stripping (Chantry Press, 1982) the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson (Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986). Her book, Reports from the Front (CCC, 1995) was nominated for an American Book Award. Arms: New and Selected Work was published by Guernica Editions in 1999. Flashlight, also published by Guernica, is her most recent collection.
Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and in the anthology The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications). In 1998, her manuscript was a finalist in the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.
Laura is the founder and Editor of Lips poetry magazine.
She has given readings at the United Nations, the Dodge Poetry Festival, Princeton University, the New York Public Library, the Women’s Spirituality Festival and numerous other venues.
A long time Dodge Poet, Laura has led sessions for many years in their “Spring & Fountain” program for teachers.
In 2014, Laura co-edited with John Gallaher, Time Is a Toy: Selected Poems of Michael Benedikt (University of Akron).
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