Dream Apartment

In Dream Apartment, Lisa Olstein builds a world of night-rabbits, bodiless shadows, and networks of wind where ode and elegy meet.

Devoted equally to the long arc and the sharp fragment, Lisa Olstein-s fifth collection maps the lucid ache at the center of night where -darkness stands in/for light,- certain heartbreaks never end, and love dovetails with losing. Immersed in ode as much as elegy, Dream Apartment employs a dynamic range of forms. Prayer-like spells cascade down the page with precision and abandon. Arrow-shot elegies explore the shock of suicide and find echoes in other kinds of grief-individual and communal, animal and ecological, sudden and creeping.

Agile narratives mirror the dazzling associative movement of unselfconscious thought, the dreaming mind, -bodiless memory.- Whether watching a stranger carry his dead dog out of a vet-s exam room or offering bouquets of peonies to night-foraging rabbits, Dream Apartment is propelled