By Lauren Levato
Chapbook, 22 pages, 5.25 by 7.25 inches, $8.00
Published by Fractal Edge Press, 2006
ISBN# 1-933126-08-6
 
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Writer, artist, and feminist activist Lauren Levato is literary editor for Ink & Ashes :: a journal for the senses and art editor for PISTIL. Her writing has appeared in After Hours, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, and Wicked Alice. She holds degrees in professional writing and women's studies from Purdue University and studied political journalism at Georgetown University. Her awards include a poetry fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. .
Lauren Levato's work moves across the physical and emotional terrain with a startling accuracy, exhibiting an almost tremulous, distinctly bodily, sense of urgency and obsession. "I'm wearing a hairnet to keep it all together…" They expertly balance the tension between what we gain and lose in our relationships-between desire and violation. Each poem holds us at the cusp of chaos and shakes.
Kristy Bowen, Author of The Fever Almanac, Publisher of Dancing Girl Press