Stereometry

by Mercedes Lucero

Stereometry is a book of poetry that explores both loss and the solace found in mathematical logic and reason.

Genres: Poetry

50 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2018

About the author

Mercedes Lucero is the author of Stereometry (Another New Calligraphy) and the chapbook In the Garden of Broken Things ​(Flutter Press). She is the winner of the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for Poetry. Her poems, stories, book reviews, and essays have appeared in New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, Fourteen Hills, Curbside Splendor, Paper Darts, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, The Pinch, Heavy Feather Review, and Whitefish Review among others. She is a Glimmer Train "Short Fiction Award" Finalist and has received several Pushcart Prize nominations. She helps curate the Big Tent Reading Series held in Lawrence, KS and helped launch BLACK Lawrence, an arts collective that seeks to elevate the dialogue around the meaning of being a black artist and creating black art. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University and is a PhD candidate in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Kansas.

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lovely little book of poetry about loneliness and grief.

[Bogi Takács]

Experimental poetry that comes with a small school supply kit: the concept is that you are reading a geometry textbook with exercises. Except this is poetry. Often about suicide.

Stereometry was just stunningly cohesive. It also made me stare into the air for a long time trying to process it (and I'm not sure I'm done with that just yet). It had a very sensitive approach to heartwrenching topics. I don't frequently reread, but I can already see that this will be a reread poetry book.

I want to take Instagram pics because this project needs to be seen in its full glory (including the flashcards, the eraser, the ruler...).
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Source of the book: Bought with my own money.

Disclosure: I have met the author before, we are local to each other, but we don't know each other closely.

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know a piece of writing is powerful when it makes me cry—this book did just that. I’m excited to see where Mercedes goes from here.