Such Luck

by Sara Backer

In Sara Backer's first full-length collection of poetry, Such Luck , you will find yourself on an unexpected journey, charged with visionary and psychological intensities. Her poems are well crafted and highly original. They are sometimes haunting, sometimes playful, and always introspective and intriguing. She explores what it is to be fully alive and aware in a diverse, contemporary, and sometimes surreal world. This is the kind of book you will return to for its ability to stimulate equally your intellect and imagination. A masterful and magical first book of poems.

72 pages, Paperback

Published September 28, 2019

About the author

I spent three years in Japan (1990-1993), as the first American and first woman to serve as visiting professor of English at Shizuoka University. This experience informed my first novel, American Fuji, which was a book club pick of the Honolulu Advertiser and a nominee for the Kiriyama Prize.

Recently, I earned an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts in poetry. My chapbook, Bicycle Lotus, won the 2015 Turtle Island Poetry Award. A second chapbook, Scavenger Hunt, came out in 2018. My first full book of poetry, Such Luck, is my newest book.

I teach freshman comp and a few other stray courses at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, lead a reading group at a men's prison, and tramp around the woods in New Hampshire.

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such Luck’s Backer has yet to fail to impress with her poetry creations. Not to be missed in this collection are the wonderful “Such Luck”, “Aphasia Blues”, “Circus Therapy”, and “Now’s the Time”. And, for once, a book is actually as wonderful as its cover since the poet births verse directly from the imagery of the card on the collection’s jacket. This is a treat for readers’ little grey cells!