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It's What I've Got Left

It's What I've Got Left - Paperback

by Lisa Allen
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lisa Allen, Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)Publish date:3/2/2026Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lily Poetry ReviewISBN-13:9781957755700ISBN-10:1957755709UPC:9781957755700Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCMVWFPD2W

It's What I've Got Left cuts through inheritance, womanhood, and survival with an attentiveness to

what endures-and bites: memory lodged in the body, belief revised but not erased, love that

refuses to loosen its grip. In poems that braid lyric intensity with narrative pressure, these pages

trace how harm and devotion spool forward and back across generations, testing what love will

and will not allow. Prose poems such as "Dear Third Born Child, I Promise I'm Trying, Love,

Mom" and the searing "Notes for My Daughter As She Prepares for Her Most Public Sexual

Assault" unfold through instruction, footnote, and reckoning, holding rage and tenderness in the

same breath. Elsewhere, moments of hard-won clarity flare unexpectedly: "let the water make

the world a conch," a line that listens for vastness without judgment. Allen writes poems that

stay-echoing, spiraled, alive to what cannot be unlearned.

Dzvinia Orlowsky, author of Those Absences Now Closest and Bad Harvest

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lily Poetry ReviewISBN-13:9781957755700ISBN-10:1957755709UPC:9781957755700Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, FamilySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCMVWFPD2W
Allen, Lisa: - Lisa Allen's (she/her) work can be found in Lily Poetry Review, December Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bear Review and MER, among others. She has received numerous Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and was a 2022 Best of the Net finalist for her poem "Prolapse: Etymology," published by South 85 Journal. Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the Solstice Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University, where she was a Michael Steinberg fellow. With Poet Rebecca Connors, she co-founded and co-directs the online creative space The Notebooks Collective (TheNotebooksCollective.com).
Publisher: Lily Poetry Review

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Lisa Allen, Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)

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