I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

“A trailblazing work.”—Lewis Warsh
 
“An auspicious debut. . . . Stripped of artifice and the mere effects of formal pyrotechnics, these poems move by ear and intellect, pushing and pulling at the real with precision and mystery.”—Ammiel Alcalay
 
“Poetry reinvents itself in Plato’s cave, where nothing can be seen but the mind’s agile resources climbing the walls of our present, real world. Perplexed at the moment of certainty, estranged at the moment of intimacy, these poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them.”—Ann Lauterbach

Anna Moschovakis is the author of four books, including You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House 2011, winner of the James Laughlin Award) and They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (Coffee House 2016, a "Best of " pick in BOMB, Entropy, and The New Yorker), the forthcoming novel Eleanor, or The Rejection of the Progress of Love, and more than a dozen chapbooks. Her translations include novels by Annie Ernaux, Albert Cossery, and (with Christine Schwartz-Hartley) Marcelle Sauvageot; poetry by Samira Negrouche and Marcel Proust; and a book of interviews with the filmmaker Robert Bresson (Bresson on Bresson). She has taught at Baltimore City Community College and Queens College, and is currently a core faculty member in nontraditional MFA programs at Pratt Institute and Bard College. She has received grants from the Howard Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts and The Fund for Poetry, and residency fellowships from Headlands Center for the Arts, Writers OMI and The Edward Albee Foundation. In 2009 she was the recipient of an apexart "outbound" residency to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 2016 she was Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at U.C. Berkeley. Raised in Los Angeles and educated at U.C. Berkeley, La Sorbonne, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and CUNY Graduate Center, she has lived primarily in New York State since the early 1990s. She is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and in 2015 she co-founded Bushel, a collectively run art and community space in Delhi, NY.