"Ladin draws the reader into a world of harsh truths, uncanny beauty, inspired erudition, ironic wit, and cadenced music . . . imagination rules, wedding poetic forms to unflinching meditations on human suffering, terror, love, and unbearable loss. Despite the ubiquity of evil and death in her poems, there is, in Yeats’s words, ‘a gaiety transfiguring all that dread.’"—Herbert Leibowitz
Joy Ladin is the author of Coming to Life, Transmigration, The Book of Anna, and Alternatives to History.
June 2012
