{"title":"Laure-Anne Bosselaar","description":"\u003cp\u003eA native of Belgium, Laure-Anne Bosselaar has lived and worked throughout Europe and the United States. She is the author of three collections of poetry in English: \u003cem\u003eThe Hour Between Dog \u0026amp; Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 1997); \u003cem\u003eSmall Gods of Grief\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2001); and \u003cem\u003eA New Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e (Copper Canyon Press, 2007). Bosselaar was awarded a fellowship at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, and was a Writer in Residence at The Vermont Studio Center and at Hamilton College. She is currently translating American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English, and teaches at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information about Laure-Anne Bosselaar, visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/laureannebosselaar.com\/\"\u003elaureannebosselaar.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"small-gods-of-grief","title":"Small Gods of Grief","description":"\u003ch5\u003eSigned copies available in limited supply\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSmall Gods of Grief\u003c\/em\u003e, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, identity, and love in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human. \"I love Laure-Anne Bosselaar's poems because they remind me of why I love poetry: because it can make me feel so alive it doesn't matter that death is all around. \u003cem\u003eSmall Gods of Grief\u003c\/em\u003e does that. It affirms, it affirms.\" —Thomas Lux\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Advice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Don't show\u003cbr\u003e your work \u003cbr\u003e until you're \u003cbr\u003e ready to\u003cbr\u003e defend it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then, let \u003cbr\u003e others call \u003cbr\u003e it art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e © BOA Editions, Ltd 2001 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Available editions: \u003cbr\u003e -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e Cloth ISBN: 1-929918-05-4 \u003cbr\u003e Price: $21.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: September 2001 \u003cbr\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-06-2\u003cbr\u003e Price: $12.95 \u003cbr\u003e Publishing Date: September 2001\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":null,"offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9802377861,"sku":"1-929918-06-2","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":8418957125,"sku":"1-929918-05-4","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cloth (Signed)","offer_id":12467832586321,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/file_111.jpeg?v=1527683349"},{"product_id":"the-hour-between-dog-and-wolf","title":"The Hour Between Dog and Wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tLaure-Anne Bosselaar's poetry captures the lives of \"lost souls roaming\": be they young girls in convents, merchants, whores, widows, soldiers, nuns or farmers. Eccentric, vibrant people, who lived in Europe in the midst of the fallout from the World Wars, are imagined, remembered, made unforgettable. Other poems speak to her experiences in America, her reflections on her european childhood and to adult love and intimacy. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThis Morning, God\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          Four A.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tI wake in the dark again, leave my husband,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ttiptoe into the kitchen, silently stir my coffee \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twith a plastic spoon: I don't want to wake him. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          I won't forget those dawns without him:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tslam the doors, slap the lights on, stir in my coffee \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twith metal things to chase away the ghouls \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof the lonely choking me in their burlap wings.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          Today, I stand in the middle of our house, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\teverything still with unblemished intensity: no wind, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tno moon, not even the weary whir of an insect hovering.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tLeave me here: with the smell of coffee, and this\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          other scent ebbing from my body: sex, my husband,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tour bed. 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