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Laura Kasischke is an American writer known for her poetry and novels. Her works often explore themes of personal identity, memory, and emotion. Born in 1961, Kasischke began her writing career in the 1980s.

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“The last hour waiting patiently on a tray for her somewhere in the future. The spoon slipping quietly into the beautiful soup.”

Death Metaphor Mortality The Future Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.”

Death Poetry Giving Up Prison Defeat Luminous Giving In Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“We would never be together in this life again.”

Death Poetry Last Time Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“Like a twentieth-century dream of Europe—all horrors, and pastries—some part of me, for all time stands in a short skirt in a hospital cafeteria line, with a tray, while in another glittering tower named for the world's richest man my mother, who is dying, never dies.”

Death Poetry Time Europe Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock are her many deaths, and yet the whole world is piled up before her on a banquet table again today. The timer, broken.”

Life Death Poetry Mortality Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“There is dancing and laughter in hell, an angel weeping openly on a park bench in heaven. My mother, dead and frantic in an attic. A white shirt on a floor. An old man in a wheelchair, rubbing his eyes. Here it is, here it is! the occupational therapists sing as they rise to the surface of the earth, smiling, bearing their terrible surprise.”

Death Poetry Heaven Hell Angel Surreal Creepy Space In Chains Laura Kasischke

Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“But, perhaps, I should have known then, I should have known that night, standing in the kitchen, that foul meat in the air- looking back on it now, I see that it was the end and the beginning of something more than dinner. More than ruined appetite, a postponed meal, a marriage strained, a freezer unplugged. I could smell the death between them.”

Death Hate Marriage

Book:White Bird in a Blizzard

Source: White Bird in a Blizzard

About the Author

Born: 1961
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 63

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