Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina

By Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier) Description Reviews With the same tender honesty found in all of Dara Barrois/Dixon’s (née Dara Wier) poetry, the poems in Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina are curious about the world we inhabit and the worlds we create. Barrois/Dixon brings profound attention to the things we love—be they animals, books, skyscapes, movies, poems, or other human beings—and to the stories that shape our worlds. Here, with emotional exactitude, is a collection of poems that is unafraid to express “love humor despair loving kindness love humor empathy/humor joy sympathy love kindness courage.”  Also available as an audiobook Read Dara Barrois/Dixon's essay about Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina in Action Spectacle here.Dara Barrois/Dixon’s fourteenth full-length poetry collection, Tolstoy Killed Anna Karenina, is a spectacular lyrical reflection on the power of language and how naming (and renaming) shapes reality. I think it’s no small thing that the author, (forme