Radio Crackling, Radio Gone

By Lisa Olstein

Book Overview

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award Radio Crackling, Radio Gone is a debut collection of poetry that explores multiple logics of perception, association, and interpretation. Navigating the edges where things begin to disappear, the poems inhabit border zones of transformation where memory slides into imagination, wakefulness meets sleep, and things possessed become lost.

What seemed a mystery was
in fact a choice. Insert bird for sorrow.
What seemed a memory was in fact
a dividing line. Insert bird for wind.
Insert wind for departure when everyone
is standing still. . .

Radio Crackling, Radio Gone was selected from the 1,200 submissions to the Hayden Carruth Award. By the time the anonymous manuscript was chosen as winner, the cover sheet was filled with readers' commentary: "stunning" and "lovely" and a bold "YES "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556592493
• ISBN13: 9781556592492
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

"Radio Crackling, Radio Gone"-- poetry by Lisa Olstein

Ms. Olstein sings the songs of angels with lyrics inspired, timeless and resonant. Deeply rooted in the earth and the nether world, she portrays the divinity of nature and humanity; indeed, of life itself. She more than deserves the Hayden Carruth Award. I expect to hear a lot more from this talented young poet.