After I Was Dead
Poems
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Pages: 120
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
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Paperback
Pub Date: 08/01/2008
ISBN: 9-780-8203-3278-9
List Price: $22.95
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Laura Mullen proceeds from near void into a powerful reconstruction of self. . . . After I Was Dead is wildly versatile formally, restlessly roving from verse to prose to epistle and back.
—Boston Review
After I Was Dead possesses a quiet intertextuality that helps support the central concept of drifting between boundaries.
—SpiderWords
It may be possible to recover language in the space of poetry. Laura Mullen's second book of poems, After I Was Dead—bound to the mad and irreconcilable desire for honesty—strives for this recovery while relentlessly questioning its own motives at every turn.
—Rain Taxi
Despite the reassurances of our good looks with which lesser poets woo us, we are not so dead that we do not respond with a kind of happiness to this unexpected demonstration that truth really is beauty.
—The Journal