Glenum, Lara: The Hounds of No

The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum (Action Books, paperback) Publication Date: October 1, 2005 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. In this entirely unheimlich debut, she enters the stage of American poetry like a Fritz Lang glamor-girl-cum-anatomical-model. Glenum recovers the political intensity and daring of the Surrealist project. "The extraordinary precision of these poems is so stunning, we can't help but feel blinded by their visions: sock-monkeys, dollhouses, and 'a circus made of meat' vibrate between the playful and the brutal so deftly, each line is a perfect shard of some fantastic planet, gloriously and sadly like our own. As in Blake's apocalyptic images, the sky rolls itself up like a scroll—brilliant in its colors and infinite in its scope. Glorious!"—D. A. Powell