Laura Minor
Flowers as Mind Control: Poems.
University of Missouri - Kansas City: BkMk Press, 2021. First edition. 9781943491308 72 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new.
Winner of the John Ciardi Prize.
"This book, which was selected by poet John Hodgen for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, ranges across rural Florida and Georgia as well as Los Angeles and New York City, include considerations of homesickness, memory, music, alcohol, love, and loss. With a voice at once inquisitive and prescient, Minor meditates on consumption, vice, homesickness, memory, family, and the landscape. Minor’s writing is unerringly lyric and blooming with elegant charm and keen description. This book is an alchemy of fortitude in the face of despair and all the transformative possibility that comes with the hope for a better future."