Eleanor Lerman, whose last collection,
The Mystery of Meteors
(2001), was named by
Library Journal
as “Best of Poetry, 2001,” returns with a dazzling, funny, and seriously mature new book.
In
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds
, Lerman boldly wrests contemporary mysticism from a hard-knock New York Jewish consciousness. She’s a solid witness to the 1960s, Cold War, Vietnam, sexual revolution, and drugs. However, in her favor, she’s traveled through baby boomer irony, bought the T-shirt, and found her way back.
Eleanor Lerman
has been nominated for a National Book Award, received the inaugural Juniper Prize, and was the recipient of a fiction grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a lifelong New Yorker.