Annie Ernaux

Anna Moschovakis

A woman abandons an unremarkable relationship, but then finds herself unable to come to grips with the idea of the man being with another woman.

The Possession

Close friends / distant lovers / lost paragraphs / a theft, a trip, a commune, a question: how to live in this world?

Eleanor Or the Rejection of the Progress of Love

An Earthquake is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth

Georges Simenon

Shaun Whiteside

Mr Hire's Engagement

Participation

"In Anna Moschovakis's plainspoken, accessible, deeply contemporary poetry, language becomes the visible architecture of ideas.From "Paradise (film two)":/ Being raised in science / under the sign of logic / I never understood how certain / promises / could be made / I could say "I promise / that unless something unexpected happens / I will do the dishes every night / this week" / I was very literal / especially with my lovers / I could say "I love you today" / but not "I will love you tomorrow" /"

They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This

A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure. "[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."--Ann Lauterbach In a world where we find "everything helping itself / to everything else," Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific research, autobiographical detail, and historical anecdote to present an engaging lyric analysis of the way we live now. "It's your life," she tells the reader, "and we have come to celebrate it."

You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake

"In Anna Moschovakis's marvelous first book, poetry reinvents itself in Plato's cave."--Ann Lauterbach

Anna Moschovakis

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