Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize, and of A New Hunger, selected as a Notable Book by the American Library Association. The editor of four anthologies and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she teaches at the Solstice Low Residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College. Her next book, These Many Rooms, will be published by Four Way Books in early 2019

Rooms Remembered

Literature & Fiction

Bosselaar, Laure-Anne

Poetry

Sungold Editions

With poems from more than 130 emerging poets, this book celebrates the nature found firmly ensconced in the urban jungles, from salamanders to horses. Original.

Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City

Hiestand, Emily

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

Lyrical poetry that sings of farmers, families and nunneries in Belgium and Flanders.

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (New Poets of America)

BOA Editions, Ltd.

Small Gods of Grief (American Poets Continuum)

The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award winner for 2001.

United States

In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, love and identity in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, a native a Belgium, has lived throughout Europe and the United States. Fluent in four languages, she has worked for Belgian and Luxembourg radio and television stations. Ms. Bosselaar's first poetry collection was the critically-acclaimed The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (BOA). She is an editor of poetry anthologies and is translating American poetry into French. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Beginning with a harrowing account of her childhood in a Belgian convent, where she was placed at the age of four, Laure-Anne Bosselaar shows us how early emotional and physical deprivation can be overcome by intelligence, humor, curiosity, and determination. Although many of her poems are overtly autobiographical, they are never merely personal.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn wrote of A New Hunger: “There’s a time in the life of a poet as a maker of poems, if she or he is going to become more than just good, when the voice of one’s second self fully emerges, distilling and orchestrating the poet’s concerns, while simultaneously infusing them with an inner melody—a music that reaches and satisfies both ear and mind. This is to say that Laure-Anne Bosselaar, with her wonderful third book, A New Hunger, has become more than just good. It’s an occasion to mark and to celebrate.”
The acclaimed author of two previous collections (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and Small Gods of Grief, which won the 2001 Isabella Stewart Gardner Prize), Laure-Anne Bosselaar grew up in Belgium, where she worked as a talk show host, commentator, and voiceover for Belgian radio and television. Fluent in four languages, she moved to the United States in 1987.

A New Hunger

Ausable Press

With the speaker of Bosselaar’s poems, we move through dark rooms of grief, finding our way into the light of quiet solitude.

These Many Rooms

Four Way Books

Lately: New and Selected Poems

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Rooms Remembered

Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the City

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (New Poets of America)

Small Gods of Grief (American Poets Continuum)

Small Gods of Grief (American Poets Continuum)

A New Hunger

These Many Rooms

Lately: New and Selected Poems