LAURA CRONK
 
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Poet and essayist, author of
Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice, Persea Books

Books

Cover Photograph: Thought Series #904, 1993, Bill Jacobson

Cover Photograph: Thought Series #904, 1993, Bill Jacobson

Ghost Hour

Sometimes compact, sometimes expansive, the poems in Ghost Hour emanate from adolescence and other liminal spaces, considering girlhood and contemporary womanhood―the ways both are fraught with the pleasures and limits of embodiment. As in her previous poetry, Laura Cronk writes personally, intimately, yet never without profound consideration of onslaught of contemporary violence, which we must love in spite of and rage against.

 
Cover Image: “Baby Blue,” Daneille Nelson Mourning

Cover Image: “Baby Blue,” Daneille Nelson Mourning

Having Been an Accomplice

Winner of the 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
In this arresting debut, love poems and interior monologues are reinvented in a time of war. Within them, Laura Cronk writes, “I want to blow up the Law with Language, having run my tongue around my mouth ten thousand times. Instead of not speaking, I want to speak.”

Laura Cronk is a poet and essayist and the author of two books of poems, Ghost Hour and Having Been an Accomplice from Persea Books. Her poems and essays appear in journals and anthologies such as The Bennington Review, Court Green, Iterant, Lit Hub, and several editions of Best American Poetry. She teaches and collaborates with writers at The New School where she is an assistant professor of writing and poetry chair for the MFA in Creative Writing graduate program. Originally from Indiana, she has lived in and around New York City for many years.

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Praise

The poems in Ghost Hour think nimbly and with all five senses about ancestry, whiteness, desire, and playing —what is both ludic but also harmful in what we pretend.
— Jennifer Grotz, poet and director of The Breadload Writer's Conference
Ghost Hour is brilliant.
— Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, poet
This is a collection of poems for grown-ups, a fierce coming of age, a coming into - with heart, humor, and humility - one’s own.
— Craig Morgan Teicher, poet and critic
Laura Cronk explores the vicissitudes and pleasures of the relational and often domestic beloved.
— Anne Waldman, poet

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