Dorothea Lasky has published l0 volumes of poetry and has a forthcoming novel. As part of his review of Marlon James’ The Disappearers, Dwight Garner nominates James for a Nobel prize. The book contains lots of very graphic depictions of sexuality which other writers might like to indulge in lieu of being given their scarlet letter, but as Vonnegut refrains in Slaughterhouse-Five, set in the backdrop of the bombing of Dresden, “so it goes.” The title of Lasky's latest volume is Mother and here are a few lines from one of the poems contained in it,"Worst." "Worst" appears in the current New Yorker, "I am the worst kind of person" and later "I am the worst kind of woman." BTW Diane Seuss another highly lauded poet sparkles with these two lines from a poem called "There once was a poem whose first word was" and whose first line is "What." Cute. Is the style of these two works incantatory or just repetitious? The Paris Review did publish Lasky's,"Porn," which is a brilliant and complex meditation on eroticism. Wonder what would have happened if Lasky and Seuss (no relation doctor) put their submission on Submittable, the site mandated to supply the need for the next generation of Madame Bovarys, doomed to dream their way to self-destruction?
Friday, September 11, 2026
Dr. Seuss?
Dorothea Lasky has published l0 volumes of poetry and has a forthcoming novel. As part of his review of Marlon James’ The Disappearers, Dwight Garner nominates James for a Nobel prize. The book contains lots of very graphic depictions of sexuality which other writers might like to indulge in lieu of being given their scarlet letter, but as Vonnegut refrains in Slaughterhouse-Five, set in the backdrop of the bombing of Dresden, “so it goes.” The title of Lasky's latest volume is Mother and here are a few lines from one of the poems contained in it,"Worst." "Worst" appears in the current New Yorker, "I am the worst kind of person" and later "I am the worst kind of woman." BTW Diane Seuss another highly lauded poet sparkles with these two lines from a poem called "There once was a poem whose first word was" and whose first line is "What." Cute. Is the style of these two works incantatory or just repetitious? The Paris Review did publish Lasky's,"Porn," which is a brilliant and complex meditation on eroticism. Wonder what would have happened if Lasky and Seuss (no relation doctor) put their submission on Submittable, the site mandated to supply the need for the next generation of Madame Bovarys, doomed to dream their way to self-destruction?
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