Pretty Tripwire

Pretty Tripwire

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Alessandra Lynch

Featured Poet for The Indianapolis Review
Longlisted for the 2021 Julie Suk Award

Pretty Tripwire is mythic in its reiteration of its images, which clang with the authority of archetype. Here we meet wolf, bird, root, bell, legless ballerina, lost child, and a swarm of flowers that are everything but pretty. The speaker sees and sees, but what good is seeing, she asks, if you don’t have a voice for telling? To gain it she must unbolt memory, unearth the root, and encounter the pretty tripwires of the machinery of silence. Lynch’s journey is nothing less than heroic.”
—Diane Seuss, author of Four-Legged Girl and Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl

January 2021
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9781948579148

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Alessandra Lynch’s most recent collection of poetry, Pretty Tripwire, was published in 2021. She  is also the author of three other poetry collections: Sails the Wind Left BehindIt was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (winner of the Balcones Prize, finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, listed as a NY Times top ten poetry books of 2017). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Plougshares, and other journals. Alessandra has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lannan Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center, and she has been the recipient of a Barbara Deming Award and a Creative Renewal Fellowship Award. She has also been a featured blogger for the Poetry Foundation’s  Harriet Books. Currently, Alessandra serves as Butler University’s poet in residence where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs. Alessandra’s fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, will be published by Alice James Books in 2024.

 

Additional Praise:

"Every line of Alessandra Lynch’s superb Pretty Tripwire is measured by a perilous beauty, catastrophic in its cascade of losses. Each poem—short lyric or long sequence—is a blueprint of residence, ghosted by a troubled father, a 'daughter I did not have,' a self 'grown thin' in sorrow. In this way it’s a book about the making and unmaking of households as well as poems, a web of kindred relationships with their snares and nests and 'beds of dirt.' I realize these households radiate from deep within the acute interior of Lynch’s imagination, but I remain truly haunted by every intimate, actual point of contact—is it tenderness? is it brute force?—in the gardens and doorways of Pretty Tripwire."
—David Baker

 

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