by Ana Bozičevic (Author)
In her latest book, NEW LIFE, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozičevic writes poems that are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all--surprising.
In her latest book, NEW LIFE, Lambda Award-winning poet Ana Bozičevic writes, "For my birthday I want a cake/revealing the color of my soul." Never saccharine, these poems are by turns cheeky and heartfelt, grounded and wistful, and above all--surprising. New Life is a book that is Dantesque in its ability to commune with the dead without becoming fixed in the past. Instead, the poems here have a distinct sense of nonlinear time, where each line feels like an ancient bone discovered, only to be reassembled into a chimera of another self. In this way, Bozičevic continually greets herself as a stranger, reminding us that in some respects every poem is a love poem.
"Bozičevic's determination to expose the unsettling truths of her own desire--her own materialism, sexuality, and shame--makes for a collection that is all the more stunning for its willingness to place its author between the crosshairs of her poems."--starred review for RISE IN THE FALL, Publishers Weekly
Poetry. LGBTQ+ Studies. Women's Studies.
Author Biography
Ana Bozičevic grew up in Zadar, Croatia before coming to Brooklyn, New York. Ana is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. She is the author of Povratak lisca / Return of the Leaves, Selected Poems in Croatian (Hrvatsko Drustvo Pisaca/Croatian Writers Society, 2020); Joy of Missing Out (Birds, LLC, 2017); the Lambda Award-winning Rise in the Fall (Birds, LLC, 2013), and Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009).