Insecurity System: Poems [Paperback]

Sappho meets Springsteen inWinner of the 2019 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize inPoetry Here, the sonnet is made newrevitalized by the restless brilliance of Wainscott's mind and music. These poems unsettle the reader. And they speak to the self's unsettledness even in the most familiar spaces. This work is a master class, not only in poem-craft, but in all kinds of ecstatic creation. ... Sarah Wainscott uses the flexibility of the sonnet tradition as a way to both contain and enable speaking of these insecuritiesboth personal and socialthat define our post-postmodern, post-liberal, (post-real?) moment.