Éireann Lorsung is the author of Her Book and Music for Landing Planes By, named a New and Noteworthy collection by Poets & Writers. A third collection of poems, The Book of Splendor, is forthcoming. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2016. Since completing an MFA at the University of Minnesota, she has studied printmaking and drawing at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice and taught high school in rural France. She creates clothing and handmade objects, edits the journal 1110, co-runs MIEL Books, and runs Dickenson House, a writers' residency. She lives in Belgium.
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.
