Larissa Shmailo

In Paran Larissa Shmailo

Poetry. In these visceral wanderings into Larissa Shmailo's narratives, we venture through the teeming back alleys of Brooklyn on through the poet's labyrinthine youth until we reach the trepidatious poetic psyche of a woman who has lost in love but keeps on gambling with a strength to envy and behold. IN PARAN is not here to soothe--this is a book willing to discomfit and excite anyone who has grown too comfortable, inciting them to `forget the right answers/consult necromancers/allow the forbidden/ignore the guilt ridden/unlearn all the learning/embrace this new burning'--Amy King.