Life Without Air

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020"e;Whip-smart, sonically gorgeous"e; - Rae Armantrout, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning VersedWhen Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states o...