Startle Pattern
2015
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“Heavenly joy means growing back- wards,” Szporluk tells readers early on in Startle Pattern, foreshadowing the tilting path of her collection. Haunted by visions of loss and the ongoing violence of the body, these poems unfold like memories through time as personal tragedies become dark fairy tales. Startle Pattern illustrates that a passing of years does not create healing: that pain, after fulling seizing the physical, bleeds into the psyche.
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Author
Larissa Szporluk
Author · 7 books
Larissa Szporluk was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan and earned degrees at the University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow. Her books of poetry include Dark Sky Question (1998), which won the Barnard Poetry Prize; Isolato (2000), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind (2003); Embryos and Idiots (2007); and Traffic with Macbeth (2011). She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently teaches at Bowling Green State University.
