Laurie Blauner is the author of five novels, nine books of poetry, and a creative non-fiction book called I Was One of My Memories. A new poetry book called Come Closer won the Library of Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander Press. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, Field, Caketrain, Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, The Collagist, The Best Small Fictions 2016 and many other magazines.

Other poems by Laurie Blauner in Verse Daily:
June 14, 2022:   "Still Life with Nervous Animals" "Too much was stolen that day to change..."
November 16, 2008:   "What Kind of an Animal Would Do That" "There's blood everywhere and a throat full of rabbits. Intent is what happens..."
October 9, 2008:   "The Emperor's Wife" "Belief is everything. Yet I can't describe..."
July 30, 2008:   "Trajectory" "I waited to leave the leg..."

Books by Laurie Blauner:

Other poems on the web by Laurie Blauner:
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Three poems
"Love Poem with Too Many Distractions"
"The robots missed their orbital interfaces"
"Killing Time"
"Peculiar Crimes"
"Prelude to Lying About My Ex-Husband"

Laurie Blauner's Website.

About Come Closer:

"Come Closer, Laurie Blauner's new collection of delicately wrought fables invites the reader into a delirium where unfamiliar and familiar realities combine. You can call these succinct yet lyrically sophisticated tales where it rains without raining, where birds open themselves like books, and your own heart can bite you meditations, auguries, revelations, or morality plays. Possessing an unrivaled imagination, Laurie Blauner transports us to cities that you recognize vaguely as if retrieved from that sinuous space between waking and sleeping. We are told in the opening lines There's something wrong with the city: the streets I need for an appointment have changed; the florist shop leaps to the top of a tall building. The commonplace is altered to reveal its true nature; the apartment becomes not a place of refuge but the setting for speculative transformations. Blauner, the 21st century alchemist, takes the unpromising base metals of our everyday and spins them into literary gold. No one has expressed the unnatural so naturally as the poet in Come Closer, her vision is cerebral and visceral and somewhere on a continuum between pleasure and horror. Reptiles poured away, flowers were devastated, and the woman grew full and empty with her own painful truths. She is our storytelling Mary Shelley on Lake Geneva in the year of no summer."
—Stephanie Dickinson

"In Laurie Blauner's new and thoroughly engaging assemblage of interwoven prose poems, fresh patterns patiently emerge in varied and surprising forms. A master of irony, Blauner offers the reader a frequently appearing narrator who lives at once inside and out of her awakenings. Here is a master of irony and personification opening a new mythology. It can be found quickly, a beginning for 'combing happiness' in the middle of further mysteries. From a character's momentary mustache (will you too speak to the borrowed man?) to a gently transformed feminine series of multiple possibilities, we are offered realities living in suggestion. Here the language is as captivating and necessary as its sources, and among the moments offered by containment,we find ourselves already renewed and extended."
—Rich Ives