"5 books of poetry that haven't really been hugely in the spotlight but that you highly recommend" cont.

4. Lara Glenum's The Hounds of No (Action Books, 2005)

The news that there's an excellent-looking new issue of ACTION YES out that includes Glenum's AWP panel paper "Notes on Women & the Grotesque" (haven't gotten to read it yet) reminded me that I wanted to add The Hounds of No to my list.

I first encountered Glenum's work in POM2 and I absolutely flipped for it. I ended up writing a poem for POM2 that incorporated phrases from her piece. Expressions like "one of our finest poets" or "among the best of her generation" make me puke, but...Hounds is an important book. And brilliant and meaty and bloody and only ten dollars--!

Here's a poem from the book, previously published in DIAGRAM:

"Medea and the Snow-Angels"