Knotted by Lee Landau

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In Knotted, Landau gazes upon childhood’s “intolerable joy,” conquering the full complexity of loss. She bravely explores family ties and their fray’s of grief. Like blood flowering from the mouth of hunger, these poems survive the raw beauty of a real world.

–Maureen Alsop, PhD, Australian poet and artist

 

Lee Landau‘s Knotted acts as a detailed map for the reader to follow through the wounds of a difficult childhood to a mature clarity that is articulated with skill and courage.

–Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Echolocation

 

“…I risked my life, for this poem…” writes Lee Landau in “Rafting the River”. And here is a collection in which the self, indeed, risks nearly everything to explore personal and inherited trauma; and yet this is a self that insists on acknowledging “color’s intolerable joy.” There is a marvelous blend here of terror and beauty. Hunger and appetite, both literal and figurative, are major threads as Landau navigates loss, violence, and hope. Knotted is a powerful, necessary testament to survival.

–Jude Nutter, author of Dead Reckoning and three other collections, recipient of several national and international poetry awards

 

 

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Knotted

by Lee Landau

$15.99, paper

979-8-88838-145-8

2023

Lee Landau‘s poetry is deeply accessible as she writes with raw honesty about her personal landscape: her relationships with family, their dysfunctional backstories, and the many phases of loss and grief that tumble through her life and poems. There is an inherent glow to her precise language and images that charm the reader. Many of the poems in this Chapbook underscore feelings of anxiety. Landau opens up her life and times in these thirty poems. She has been a finalist in four poetry contests, her work has been well published in journals and small presses. This is not the writings of an emerging poet, but the result of how she explores a well honed craft while engaging in poetic themes of love, loss, grief. Known influences on her poetry are Mark Strand, Tom Lux, Sharon Olds and Maxine Kumin. Knotted should capture a broad based audience from 18 to 99 years old, a Highly Recommended Read.

This Poet writes with raw honesty and exacting tension about interactions in a unique personal landscape: her relationships with family, their dysfunctional backstories, and the many phases of grief that tumble through her life and poems. She addresses an internal audience of the departed, dead and dying, while highlighting qualified losses. Some of the Journal and magazines where she has been published: New Millennium Writings, Welter at University of Baltimore, bluestockings magazine at Brown University. Finalist in five Poetry Contests, her first Chapbook, Knotted, will be published early in 2023.

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