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Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke has published eight novels and eight collections of poetry. Her most recent collection, Space, in Chains, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011. She teaches at the University of Michigan.

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The Common Cold

Laura Kasischke

‘But here we are again, you and I, the / two of us, tangled / up and biological.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

First Sentence: Laura Kasischke

Laura Kasischke

‘There really was a moth I found in a toolbox (not as musical or interesting as ‘strongbox’), alive, in the attic, in that box.’

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The first resurrection

Laura Kasischke

The moth locked up all winter in the strongbox. Mostly mind after a while. Flimsy...

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