Laura Kasischke

Normand Opale

Laura Kasischke has published eight collections of poetry and eight novels. For her most recent collection of poetry (Space, In Chains) she received the National Book Critics Circle Award.  She lives in Chelsea, Michigan, and teaches at the University of Michigan.

Drachma

I’m not interested in one thing
in this museum case. Not

that coin, filthy, ancient.
Not that little marble phallus.
Not this tiny Isis, or Byzantine slave bracelet, or
blue-green shard of Roman glass.
What...