Easy Math

by Lauren Shapiro

Selected by Marie Howe for the 2011 Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Easy Math is anxious and exuberant both. Lauren Shapiro's poems are Aesop stood on end, wry fables that defy our instinct to find a moral to the story. Instead, she offers us a gimlet eye to the disappointments of the world, tall tale-telling by turns rickety, defiant, and brave. "There are an infinite number of ways to torture the soul with hopefulness" Shapiro says, so we settle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936747480
• ISBN13: 9781936747481
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"