Ann Lauterbach's poetry is of ravishing presence pressured and fired by memory, desire, myth, and dream. To read Lauterbach's poetry is to immerse oneself in the rich textures of language as well as to participate in the re-visioning of the modernist lyric. Hers is not a didactic, discursive, or instructional poetry; rather it is a poetry moved by intuition, juxtaposed fragments, oblique narratives, and stunning images. This is not to say Lauterbach's poetry is sensational--that is, demanding of the senses while implying a diminishment of the intellect. Rather, in their evocation of the senses her poems explore the most central of lyric and human conditions--eros, mortality, the coil of time, and the material of language.

Ann Lauterbach was born in Manhattan on 28 September 1942 to Richard Edward and Elisabeth Stuart Wardwell Lauterbach. Richard Lauterbach was a writer and correspondent. During Ann Lauterbach's childhood he served as a war correspondent...