How I Got Lost So Close to Home

by Amy Dryansky

Matching a fine (and often funny) imagination to a sharp, plainspoken intelligence, the poems in How I Got Lost So Close to Home move through familiar landscapes: the busy intersections of streets and parks, the changing topographies of self and family, and the hard won territory of beauty in an imperfect world. With their remarkable clarity, Dryansky's poems make us feel as though we too are present in her landscapes, and not just looking at them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882295226
• ISBN13: 9781882295227
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Great New Voice for Our Time

Exploring the personal and the public, reaching out while at the same time looking within, Dryansky's poetry can't help but touch your soul.

Quiet Beauty

The title of Amy Dryansky's book, although it suggests a speaker, or speakers, who have somehow lost their way in one fashion or another, is deceptive. Each poem in this collection is more about finding oneself, finding an answer, a connection, discovering a secret, something rare and at the same time beautifully common. From the first poem, "Today Everything Hurts," to the last, "How It Flew from Her," Dryansky exposes the soul and shows us all how fragile it can be -- and how that fragility is one of the most precious things we possess.