Winter Sex

By Katy Lederer

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• “Probing, pondering, and deeply honest—these poems inhabit the space of questions and resonate in the cavern of possibility. Sometimes melancholy, but also sometimes funny, they are about the speculative yearnings that bind us to all that we care about. In this remarkable first book, Katy Lederer proves that, though beauty and intelligence may be at odds with the conditions of the world, they need not be at odds with each other.”—Lyn Hejinian

• Lederer’s lyricism is often punctuated with the tautological, the truistic, the what-goes-without-saying, and the humility of Lederer’s quasi-conclusions can be a winning quality. The poems are often amped to the point that the filament in them appears ready to burn, and then at the last second Lederer seems to know how to reduce the current without losing the illumination.
  Paul Stephens, Electronic Poetry Review