Sunday, May 30, 2010

Carol Muske-Dukes on LA Liminal

and other books about "loneliness and memory":
Becca Klaver's L.A. LIMINAL (Kore Press) is another first book that illuminates -- "a star show: hip, lit, and hallowed". Read these poems for new insight into Los Angeles, our spectacularly illusory city -- by a young poet with incorrigible energy and brilliance.

Carol is my former professor from my undergrad years at USC (where she founded the PhD Program in Literature & Creative Writing), the Poet Laureate of California, and the author of Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood, which came out when I was living in LA and, I'm sure, influenced LA Liminal. So, that's to say that I know her, but also that she's the ideal reader of the book in so many ways and I'm really grateful for her support. Thank you, Carol!

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