Desire Zoo

Alison Lutermans eye is on women, on children, in the streets and in the woods. Or at home alone in front of a desk. Her arms envelop love in whatever form it shows up: a cup of coffee from her husband, or the curve of a pregnant womans belly as she walks around the lake in flip-flops. Lutermans poems are concerned with this and more. She is not abstract she cant stop telling stories. She doesnt know how to refrain from making meaning out of scraps of beauty that shes found. For Luterman, poetry is both a privilege and a job.