Furs Not Mine [Paperback]

The poems in Furs Not Mine display Andrea Cohens masterful craft and lyricism and her keen wit. In Cohens elegiac shoals, we see how Great griefs are antidotes /?for lesser sorrows, and in her strange, surprising narratives, we glimpse a man darting into traffic for a hubcap, meaning to build his dream / vehicle from scrap. These poems, too, have the feel of dreamy constructions, in which bliss from a distance, can look like pain. Thats the magic of this collection: it holds loss and promise in the same imagesometimes even the same word.

Furs Not Mine is a mix of lament and humor, loss and desire

ANDREA COHEN is the director of The Writers House at Merrimack College and the director of The Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her awards include a PEN Discovery Award and Glimmer Trains Short Fiction Award.