Laura Goldstein
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awesome camera (2014)
by Laura Goldstein
What an awesome camera Laura Goldstein wields! This one captures 鈥渘ot errors but eros鈥� and deploys 鈥渁 language longing on its own.鈥� Walking through the front lines of the anthropocene wars, Goldstein presents micro-scenarios with macro-significance: we get a glimpse of 鈥渁 night watchman [who] fits his feelings into a contract,鈥� as if that鈥檚 the only way we have left to process feelings. Existence reduced to an economic algorithm鈥�"on one hand a problem another a salary鈥濃�攕urely there鈥檚 more to us than that! Isn鈥檛 there? Isn鈥檛 there? Goldstein鈥檚 camera may show us darkness, but we never forget that both poems and cameras need light to operate. 鈥� Jay Besemer (author of Telephone)
loaded arc (2013)
What can the lyric postmodern do in the face of large-scale violence and micro aggressions? Laura Goldstein knows. loaded arc, in pages of intense music, pulls us sonically down deep into truths that are knowable because of beauty. This poetry enacts relationships: hurricane Katrina and inequality, fluctuating bank balances and television, attempts at accounting for everything 鈥渂ecause the world/is for falling in love with鈥︹�� and anxious conceptualizations of fatherhood/homeland. In sure sculpted lines, calling up multiple voices and a wide array of sources, and always maximizing The Word鈥檚 out-loud potentials鈥攂ecause utterances can be simultaneously sacred and secular鈥攖his book is buoyant, is hope, 鈥渋s clearly room for action and alternatives can be planned鈥�" 鈥� Jill Magi
awesome camera (2014)
by Laura Goldstein
What an awesome camera Laura Goldstein wields! This one captures 鈥渘ot errors but eros鈥� and deploys 鈥渁 language longing on its own.鈥� Walking through the front lines of the anthropocene wars, Goldstein presents micro-scenarios with macro-significance: we get a glimpse of 鈥渁 night watchman [who] fits his feelings into a contract,鈥� as if that鈥檚 the only way we have left to process feelings. Existence reduced to an economic algorithm鈥�"on one hand a problem another a salary鈥濃�攕urely there鈥檚 more to us than that! Isn鈥檛 there? Isn鈥檛 there? Goldstein鈥檚 camera may show us darkness, but we never forget that both poems and cameras need light to operate. 鈥� Jay Besemer (author of Telephone)
loaded arc (2013)
What can the lyric postmodern do in the face of large-scale violence and micro aggressions? Laura Goldstein knows. loaded arc, in pages of intense music, pulls us sonically down deep into truths that are knowable because of beauty. This poetry enacts relationships: hurricane Katrina and inequality, fluctuating bank balances and television, attempts at accounting for everything 鈥渂ecause the world/is for falling in love with鈥︹�� and anxious conceptualizations of fatherhood/homeland. In sure sculpted lines, calling up multiple voices and a wide array of sources, and always maximizing The Word鈥檚 out-loud potentials鈥攂ecause utterances can be simultaneously sacred and secular鈥攖his book is buoyant, is hope, 鈥渋s clearly room for action and alternatives can be planned鈥�" 鈥� Jill Magi