Éireann Lorsung works in a field of images, objects, movement, and texts, and especially in the overlap between printmaking and poetry. Her previous collections include Pattern-book; The Century, winner of the Maine Literary Award in Poetry; Her book; and Music for Landing Planes By, named a new and noteworthy collection by Poets & Writers. She is a 2016 NEA Fellow and held the 2025 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Lorsung currently teaches at the University of South Dakota.
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Books by Éireann Lorsung
Tactile and synesthetic, Pink Theory! is a migratory exploration of image, poetic form, and philosophy that declares, “We cannot make the world alone.”
A meticulously detailed catalogue of ordinary people performing acts of extraordinary violence, The Century charts an awakening to structures of dominance and violence.
Full of youth, wonder, and imagination, this collection crosses distances and generations to celebrate the lives of women, and the bonds that bring them together. In these poems, the female body rises from a foundation of stars; songbirds are cut from paper and stormy light; and letters arrive, and disappear, mysteries contained within.
From the copper plate of an Intaglio print to the patched muslin form of a dressmaker’s mannequin to the maddered boy taking shape on a loom, these poems transform the ephemeral into the eternal. Along the way, the collection combines an affection for formality with an overarching intelligence and pertinence.
