Skeletons

Deborah Landau's collection of poems, "Skeletons," is a New York Times bestseller and one of the best books of 2023. It explores themes of loneliness and mortality, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics. The collection culminates in an ecstatic sequence celebrating the love and connection that persist despite our fraught present moment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Deborah Landau's poems are a celebration of the city, the body, and the evening drink, transformed into pure essence. They remind us of the pleasures of the world and the joys of being alive. Landau's stunning collection, "Skeletons," opens with the line, "So whatever's the opposite of a Buddhist, that's what I am, and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends, sex, flavors, and vistas and language, because isolation it burns. Behind it is all is rage against death, incessant klepto, but Landau is a first-rate phrasemaker and gets down in words life, the full force of it/pressing us together good and hard." Alex Dimitrov describes Landau's poems as "wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends, sex, flavors, and vistas and language, because isolation it burns. Behind it is all is rage against death, incessant klepto, but Landau is a first-rate phrasemaker and gets down in words life, the full force of it/pressing us together good and hard." Nick Laird describes Landau's writing as "killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath - leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire." Publishers Weekly (starred review) describes Landau's writing as "a dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn's early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics. Spring blooms relentlessly while the ambulances siren by. Against the mountin." Deborah Landau's poems are a celebration of the city, the body, and the evening drink, transformed into pure essence. They remind us of the pleasures of the world and the joys of being alive. Landau's stunning collection, "Skeletons," opens with the line, "So whatever's the opposite of a Buddhist, that's what I am, and these are poems wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends, sex, flavors, and vistas and language, because isolation it burns. Behind it is all is rage against death, incessant klepto, but Landau is a first-rate phrasemaker and gets down in words life, the full force of it/pressing us together good and hard." Alex Dimitrov describes Landau's poems as "wonderfully full of attachments, in love with love, friends, sex, flavors, and vistas and language, because isolation it burns. Behind it is all is rage against death, incessant klepto, but Landau is a first-rate phrasemaker and gets down in words life, the full force of it/pressing us together good and hard." Nick Laird describes Landau's writing as "killer wit evokes Dorothy Parker crossed with Sylvia Plath - leaping spark after spark, growing to deadly dark fire." Publishers Weekly (starred review) describes Landau's writing as "a dazzling new collection. Through a series of poems preoccupied with loneliness and mortality, Skeletons flashes with prismatic effect across the persistent allure of the flesh. Initiated during Brooklyn's early lockdown, the book reflects the increasingly troubling simultaneity of Eros and Thanatos, and the discontents of our virtual lives amidst the threats of a pandemic and corrosive politics. Spring blooms relentlessly while the ambulances siren by. Against the mountin."

Weight: 106g
Dimension: 127 x 197 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472158994