Larissa Szporluk
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Envy Never Sleeps
As if to heed Hecate’s rebuke, to show the dire glory of her art, Szporluk’s poems speak with a voice unhinged by an unyielding despair. Teeming with submerged violence and opaque anger, they swirl, futile, in the face of our…
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The Last Book I Loved: Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk
So this book isn’t totally obscure, having won the 1997 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, but Dark Sky Question by Larissa Szporluk still deserves a dose of the spotlight. A blurb from Gregory Orr describes Szporluk as a kind of…