Laura Kasischke is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Dance and Disappear, recipient of the Juniper Award in 2002, and Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received many other honors as well, including the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and several Pushcart Prizes. Her novels include The Life before Her Eyes, which was adapted for film, and The Raising (2011). A professor of English at the University of Michigan, Kasischke lives in Chelsea, Michigan, with her husband and son.


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2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Message

by Laura Kasischke

On the other side of a wall
made of circuits and switches,
I hear my brother’s wife whisper, It’s
her again. Let the machine get it.

But you were the one I wanted, Machine.
You with your little, replaceable parts—
some of them fingers, some of them hearts.
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