Poetry. Winner of the 2003 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. "You'll find a stunning cleanliness of movement and image in these delicious, evocative, sexy poems. Hooray for a writer who can weave presence and absence, longing and loss of longing, into a tapestry of language as rich, honest, and compelling as this"--Naomi Shihab Nye. "With depth, assurance, and astonishing savoir faire Landau makes ORCHIDELIRIUM a genuine orchid of a book, a vivid and riveting new bloom in American letters"--Molly Peacock.
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Deborah Landau was born in Colorado and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was educated at Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, where she was a Javits Fellow and earned a Ph.D. in English and American Literature.
Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Columbia, Grand Street, Barrow Street, The Antioch Review, and Prairie Schooner, and she has published critical articles on contemporary American poetry. She was a two-time winner of the Los Angeles Poetry in the Windows Contest, a National Poetry Series finalist and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Landau has taught at Brown, Antioch, and NYU, and is currently a core faculty member and Assistant Chair of the Writing Program at The New School. She is co-curator of the KGB Poetry Reading Series and lives in New York City.
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You must leave everything behind,
your body of water, your stream of breath,
something static in your hand like a wing.
your body of water, your stream of breath,
something static in your hand like a wing.
It came and will come again:
flooding Fifth Avenue through Washington Square
and the strong swimmers will shed their day clothes
and climb into the fountains
and the ticketholders will find themselves unlucky
and the desk clerks will wave their flags
and the scaffolding will collapse
and the morning light will come down hard
on the sidewalk, nothing to break its fall.
--from Manhattan Fragments 2001-2002, IV
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Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and The Last Usable Hour, a Lannan Literary Selection published by Copper Canyon Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Best American Erotic Poems. She lives in New York City, where she is Clinical Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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moving, brilliant, poetry that's a great read!,
This review is from: Orchidelirium (Paperback)
This is the best first book of poetry I have read. It manages to be "poetic" and compulsively readable. Kudos. We need people asking these tough questions and finding brilliantly open-ended answers--this book heartens me.
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pleasant surprise,
This review is from: Orchidelirium (Paperback)
Sometimes, readng as much contemporary poetry as I do, I feel like one of the old orchid hunters--looking through the jungle for the rare flowers. Orchidelirium is a found orchid: it's a lovely, surprising read fusing narrative and lyricism. Landau is a fine fine poet, and she knows how to find the right balance, make the right gestures with language and line, with image and rhythm, to make us read on.
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