Lady Lazarus Redux

by Amanda Earl

A book of poetry by Amanda Earl. From the "afterword": "This work is a guided remix. I collected 300 nouns from Gwendolyn MacEwen's Volume One, the Early Years, and Adrienne Rich's Collected Poems; 300 verbs from Anne Sexton's Selected Poems and 300 qualifiers from Sylvia Path's Collected Poems. I placed each category into bowls and drew index cards like one would Tarot cards, to tell the fortune of the speaker of the poem, a woman in her fifties who is entering menopause."

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

bibliophile, bon vivant, friend to kindreds.
https://linktr.ee/amandaearl

Reviews

[Greg Bem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Occasionally books jab you in the spine and cause you to sit upright, pay attention, know that it will affect yourself as a book should always do, that it is not just noise, not just ambient, but active and effectively present. I found Earl's book to be this way, to be of fantastic import. An above-average selection of the already-fantastic above/ground press, Lady Lazarus Redux seeks rawness, transparency, and a full-on immersion into the struggles of the feminist mind and the feminist text. The book is personal, but collective. Absorptive and incapacitating. It is a serene cry out, though conceptual construction and found language, for better opportunities to know suffering and to know resolution. It will be a marvelous book to return to over time.