Stripping

Boss, Laura

Chantry Pr

In this collection of audacious and powerful poems, Boss has continued and expanded her story of the complexity of survival in the increasingly dangerous world of contemporary relationships. She writes with power and originality and an underlying humor that counterbalances and also emphasizes the seriousness and great technical skill of this poet.

Arms: 96: New and Selected Poems (Essential Poets series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Guernica Editions Inc.

Laura Boss' newest collection The Best Lover continues the author's signature style of audacious, irreverent, ironic narrative poems that somehow often fuse heartbreak, humor and intensity in unflinchingly honest poems that explore relationships: both family relationships and lovers, including living with the "L'Enfant Terrible" Beat poet that Allen Ginsberg called the best poet of the last quarter of the 20th Century. This book examines the grief that follows a long term relationship, 9/11, internet dating, the randomness of fate and the way choices made or not made affect the course of our lives. Baudelaire said, "the worst sin of poetry is to be boring." Laura Boss' poems are never boring. Ultimately, the book transcends its author's journey and becomes an adventure of survival with which each reader can identify.

The Best Lover

NYQ Books

About the Author\nLaura Boss (1938-2021) is a first place winner of Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Poetry Contest. She was the sole representative of the USA at the XXVI International Struga Poetry Festival. In 2011 she received the First International Poetry Prize at the first International Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales. She is a recipient of three NJSCA Poetry Fellowships. Founder and Editor of the poetry magazine Lips, her own most recent books include Arms: New and Selected Poems, Flashlight (both Guernica Editions), THE BEST LOVER (NYQ Books, 2017), and FAMILY PROMISES (NYQ Books, 2021). A Dodge Poet, her poems have appeared in The Poets of New Jersey from Colonial to Contemporary and The New York Times.\nPoetry. FAMILY PROMISES is a collection of poems that are like prisms that reflect Laura's unique blend of humor, irony and clarity. Her signature style of irreverence and honesty are in full display as she faces life's challenges without flinching. She bravely attempts to triumph over insurmountable losses with her sardonic tone and grace. It is astonishing how Laura manages to merge heartbreak with laughter in every poem. The legacy of her enduring voice resonates throughout this exquisite posthumous volume.

Family Promises

Parenting & Relationships

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