Deborah Landau is a celebrated poet whose collections delve into the intricacies of the human body and our finitude. Her poetics are raw and penetrating, exploring the fragility of existence with a keen sense of reality. Through meticulously crafted verse, she offers readers a reflection on what it means to be alive in the contemporary world. Her literary influence is further solidified by her role as Director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
Deborah Landau's Soft Targets draws a bull's-eye on humanity's vulnerable flesh and corrupted world. In this ambitious lyric sequence, fear of annihilation expands beyond the self to an endangered planet where all inhabitants are soft targets, as she views a world beset by political tumult, random violence, terror attacks and climate change.
Witty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collection which shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humour and intimacy.