Anna Moschovakis measures words, crosses languages, and invents forms. In a mode of inquiry, friction, and barbed naiveté, these four long poems trouble notions of history, self-knowledge, and intimacy, insisting that how to be is a question we can never tire of confronting.
From Paradise (film two) :
/ Being raised in science / under the sign of logic / I never understood how certain / promises / could be made / I could say I promise / that unless something unexpected happens / I will do the dishes every night / this week / I was very literal / especially with my lovers / I could say I love you today / but not I will love you tomorrow /
Anna's work with Ugly Duckling Presse gives her a platform and built-in audience that should be enthusiastic about seeing new work
These poems are breathtakingly smart, accessible, and deadpan funny.
Readers of Patricia Lockwood should find much to admire in Anna's work, there's the same sense of the contemporary, but it's delivered with far more skill and philosophical and ethical weight
These are poems that use their formal structure (line and page breaks) to great advantage, welcoming in the lay reader without sacrificing technical masteryMoschovakis invents new forms, insisting that we can never tire of asking how must I live in the world.
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