“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.”
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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. more
“and the stones, bewitched, can see: The lost hours and into the past.”
“happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time”
“I understand charm to be a completely independent characteristic from goodness,' Murphy replies.”