Gardening in the Dark.?

Small Press Bookwatch, Nov, 2004

Gardening In The Dark

Laura Kasischke

Ausable Press

1026 Hurricane Road, Keene, NY 12942

1931337225 $14.00 1-800-283-3572 www.ausablepress.org

Award-winning poet Laura Kasischke presents Gardening in the Dark, a compilation of free-verse poetry that blends daily experience with contemplation of omnipresent forces, both internal and external, that drive one for good or ill. Speaking directly from the recognizable portions of ordinary life, yet carrying a deeper undercurrent of the human struggle, the words are evocative of the human spirit coping with adversity in mundane and severe circumstances alike. "The Internet": The first time I set down to it alone / I am flesh surrounded by space. // The space begins at the edges of my body / and from there it expands to contain // everything. // I've sinned. / Cannot be saved. / Surrounding me is this strange haze / made of information.