{"product_id":"reed","title":"Each Abrasion Inside Love | Laura Ann Reed","description":"\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eA quietly thrilling and rare new voice is among us. In this seamlessly coherent and assured selection of prose poems, Laura Ann Reed offers a sense of interiority, liminal mystery, and shimmering intimacy as alluring as her approach to processing trauma and confusion is fearless and layered. Bookending, punctuating and amplifying memory and autobiography are a series of perfectly-aligned ekphrastics that allow new insight into artists like Sargent, Da Vinci and Bonnard just as they further inform, clarify, and complicate the poems based in event and situation. This expansive intertwining, both recursive and propulsive, laced through with intriguing imagery and turns of phrase, vulnerable invitations, and distance-shattering rhetorical moves, weaves a dreamlike and yet wholly-grounded spell that beckons us to enter, like a wave poised to envelope its readers, again and again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg white-space-prewrap font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e--Sarah Maclay, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eNightfall Marginalia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eLike a master painter sketching a series of gestures, Laura Ann Reed writes toward truth, toward energy, embracing the veracity of fleeting, lush images rather than false resolution. Each prose poem is a “space opening” from memory to the present. As “she struggles to retrieve something velvet in herself that vanished,” the speaker returns to her dead infant sister, childhood exile, an old lover, and fog-covered hills. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eEach Abrasion Inside Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e is full of desire and juxtaposition, crafted in tonal strokes, and “edgeless”—these poems seem to rise from the page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg white-space-prewrap font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e—Chelsea B. DesAutels, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eA Dangerous Place\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThroughout \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eEach Abrasion Inside Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e, it is in the lucid space of memory that we see a tendering of both nostalgia and grief. There is an insistence in finding a steady gaze in looking at lived and inherited traumas, and a care in acknowledging the fragility around the ghosts that these moments leave. These poems exist in the in-betweens—the moments of hesitation before seeing. In its inquisitiveness, this collection teaches of transcending with unwavering loyalty. Through a diligent circling we feel the speaker’s sense of reasoning and certainty as Reed writes, “because guilt \/ is an obsession.” These poems transport us, while simultaneously awakening us to what is before us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-start para-style-body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg white-space-prewrap font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e— Sara Lupita Olivares, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eMigratory Sound\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e_____________________________\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003eLaura Ann Reed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e is the author of the chapbook, \u003ci\u003eHomage to Kafka\u003c\/i\u003e, (Poetry Box, 2023) and the poem sequence, \u003ci\u003eNelly Sachs Cycle: A Circling \u003c\/i\u003e(forthcoming from \u003ci\u003eThe Pasticheur\u003c\/i\u003e.) Her work has been nominated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003efor the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003ePushcart Prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming in\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003enumerous journals including \u003ci\u003eSontag Mag, Cathexis Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ewildness\u003c\/i\u003e (England), \u003ci\u003eThe Laurel Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePersimmon Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Pasticheur: Literature, Arts \u0026amp;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIdeas, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTrace Fossils Review,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as in twelve anthologies including \u003ci\u003ePoetry of Presence II\u003c\/i\u003e (Grayson Books, 2023), 2026 \u003ci\u003eWorld\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoetry Day Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, (\u003ci\u003eMoonstone Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e, 2026) and \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eStorey Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e, 2023\u003ca name=\"_Hlk214028673\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e) Reed holds master’s degrees in clinical psychology and performing arts. She \u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003ewas born in Berkeley, California and she earned her B.A. from The University of California, Berkeley, which included a year at l’Université Aix-Marseille in France. She lives with her husband, Grant Reed, in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in -9.0pt .0001pt -4.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Garamond',serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"dancing girl press \u0026 studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45834016358447,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/1219\/files\/Aquietlythrillingandrarenewvoiceisamongus.Inthisseamlesslycoherentandassuredselectionofprosepoems_LauraAnnReedoffersasenseofinteriority_liminalmystery_andshimmerin_1.png?v=1786995639","url":"https:\/\/dulcetshop.myshopify.com\/products\/reed","provider":"dancing girl press \u0026 studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}