The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of ExperienceIn her six collections of poetry, Ann Lauterbach has won acclaim for poems that explore the ways in which language simultaneously omits and defines our experience of reality. Lauterbach s dazzling range of formal strategies, her search for methods that engage contemporary issues of identity, event, and description extend to her prose writings, collected for the first time in The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience. At the center of this

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Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy

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they did their drinking Hemingway and Fitzgerald ricocheting through the cafés of Paris in the 1920s

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and walked down the sleepy residential streets

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