With Lorraine All Day

"There is no poet more expert in manipulating language than Kristen Orser. In "Lorraine," she strings together fragments like popcorn or lace, like anything worth using to decorate. There is a marriage, a winter, a grasping at combination. There is the loss of something unidentified but alternatingly felt. Joined in the body, this poem is your fullest and emptiest feelings and, a treasure, how you never knew they'd been woven inside words. An absolutely stunning-perfect-first collection." -Kat Dixon, author of Temporary Yes and Here/Other