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 | Stellar Telegram poems by Kasandra Larsen |
Of this year's First Place Winner our final judge, Alice Persons, writes:
Kasandra Larsen’s Stellar Telegram is an accomplished collection of poems with wonderful, intriguing titles, including “Why Love and Justice Are Cousins”, “The Purposes Of Sleep Are Only Partly Clear”, “Solitude And the Uses of Water”, and “The Time It Takes For Starlight To Arrive.” Many of the book’s most poignant and vivid poems are set in a post-Katrina New Orleans, where on Lee Circle during Mardi Gras “here’s the parade,/and here’s me leaning forward,/all hunger,/ all hollow, /hands begging for proof.” In another New Orleans poem, “Kaleidoscopic shifts light up a town/both on her way up and on her way down.” The poems are accessible and emotionally convincing without veering into cliché, with a deft precision of language. Some poems take us to more abstract places; the mixture of reality-grounded and imaginative destinations is intriguing. This is a compelling collection in which--to quote from “Some Things Are Better Left”-- “language grabs for wings and seeks to fly.”
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