The Time Machine by Laura Kasischke

The Time Machine by Laura Kasischke
Published:2019
Poetry
ISBN: 978-0-9990050-5-7

Laura Kasischke’s “The Time Machine” offers us surreal and transformative explorations into memory, mortality, and femininity. In the opening poem, Laura tells us: “This is what it feels like / to be a woman / who is also a vulture.” In a sense, Kasischke’s 9th book of poetry is an elegy for the present-self, at once a reminder of all we have lost – “You / were loved wildly before you even had time to open your eyes. / But now you can never catch up. / And that’s the problem” – and all we have to gain if we dig deeply into ourselves – “In the end, no / training was needed… I taught myself so well. / It’s all I can do now.”