Every Last Thing

Poetry. In her sixth collection, Alyse Knorr open our daily reality like a flower, one whose scent is elusive and complex, but powerful. Insight, humor, courage, and originality transform the inner space of each poem with deceptive simplicity as Knorr asks existential questions of the tiniest concrete details and demands love in return from the vast and terrifying universe which threatens, at times, to swamp our meager human perception. Loss coexists here with delight, pleasure with emptiness, and her mischievously tidy-looking poems spin the reader and set us down in an altered state, one where we suddenly believe that all is unified, that we all belong.Graham Faust says her work is "situated at the crossroads of Lorine Niedecker's sharp Wisconsin chiseling and Walt Whitman's expansive New York groove," and that Knorr has created "a Baedeker for a life of love, loss, and loose ends, a life that's-let's face it, bravely-at once hers and for all. These poems are genuine and generous, hu