Laura Van Prooyen (Book order)

Laura Van Prooyen Book order

Laura Van Prooyen is an accomplished poet whose work delves into the intricacies of human experience with a distinct and resonant voice. Her poems explore themes of community, memory, and the domestic sphere, often imbued with a quiet intensity that draws readers into profound contemplation. Van Prooyen's masterful use of language and imagery creates vivid emotional landscapes, making her a significant contemporary presence in American poetry.

Frances of the Wider Fields

90 pages
4 hours of reading

Frances of the Wider Field is about mothers, daughters, time, mortality-the loss of memory and meaning. Van Prooyen's poems have clarity and ferocity, a wild imaginative grace that captures the joy and strangeness of our most intimate and familiar experiences. Frances appears part god, part curious child, part the small solitary voice inside. Van Prooyen asks " Is a sigh a word? Is a body a word? / Is a tongue the beginning?" She tells us "Memory cannot undo the future. Frances, if I said, /tonight I thank the seven sisters, it's really / the blue dust of God between them. Or you."