Why I am sad
By: Dorothea Lasky
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Seattle, Washington; New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: American essays
Notes: "Published by Wave Books to accompany Milk."--Page 2.

"Dorothea Lasky is the author of five full-length collections of poetry: Milk (Wave Books, forthcoming 2018), Rome (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2014), Thunderbird (Wave Books, 2012), Black Life (Wave Books, 2010), and AWE (Wave Books, 2007). She is also the author of six chapbooks: Matter: A Picturebook (Argos Books, 2012), The Blue Teratorn (Yes Yes Books, 2012), Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis in 1978, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, MAKE magazine, Phoebe, Poets & Writers Magazine, The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, and 6x6, among other places. She is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's, 2013) and is a 2013 Bagley Wright Lecturer on Poetry. She holds a doctorate in creativity and education from the University of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. She has taught poetry at New York University, Wesleyan University, and Bennington College. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and lives in New York City."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June  21).

Purchased from Wave Books on June 15, 2018, with the Ruth Geraldine Ashen Book Fund.

As issued, in printed paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.