Thunderbird

Dorothea Lasky has nearly boundless energy for her work, and is open to all sorts of publicity. She has expressed interest in tv and radio, as well as an online "tour" to supplement her geographical readings. Her 2007 Tiny Tour, in support of AWE, was a critical and popular success, and we are working to find creative ways to engender a similar virtual tour for Thunderbird. Lasky is interested in doing a national tour and is in the process of trying to line up readings and funding. We will work for features and reviews in Bookslut, Coldfront, The Paris Review, American Poet, The Awl, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, HTMLGiant, The Rumpus, Jacket2, MAKE Magazine, and The Poetry Foundation, among others. We will promote Thunderbird on Lasky's author page (http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/54), through social media like Facebook and twitter, and on our homepage. Lasky maintains a blog and has an active online presence in various social mediums. Her skill and dedication to these forms are invaluable publicity.

Echoes of Plath amplify and eviscerate in this thunderous third collection."In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."--Julia Bloch, Bitch "The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret."--InDigest Magazine, InDigest Picks Go, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the "purple motel / where the bird lives." Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. Thunderbird's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way. Baby of air You rose into the mystical Side of things You could no longer live with us We put you in a little home Where they shut and locked the door And at night You blew out And went wandering ...Dorothea Lasky is also the author of Black Life and AWE, both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.