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The honesty and directness of Lisa Roney’s poetry holds us, breath caught, until we reach the end of The Best Possible Bad Luck. Diagnosed with diabetes at twelve, Roney doesn’t sweeten the news in these taut, necessary poems. She notes dryly, for example, in the harrowing title poem, the “minor irony that an ischemic/ event” is presented to her by her doctor as “lucky” because it left her with language intact. This is a poetry “bleached to the basics,” as another poem puts it, at once austere and glorious.
–Cynthia Hogue, author of Or Consequence and The Incognito Body
Physical landscapes and their weathers—threatening, relentless, dizzying—along with terrains of the body and heart combine to form the subject matter of Lisa Roney’s subtly powerful The Best Possible Bad Luck. These poems deftly take us into the process of hard won truths—the fragility of life and its randomness, but also ever-elusive hope and transformation. The poems in this collection transform the grit and sting of experience into a lasting tribute.
–Jeff Daniel Marion, author of Ebbing & Flowing Springs and Letters Home
Lisa Roney reads “Gold Coast” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg3zz7dHk3I.
The Best Possible Bad Luck
by Lisa Roney
$14, paper
Lisa Roney is the author of a memoir, Sweet Invisible Body, and short work in Harper’s, Sycamore Review, Ruminate, The Healing Muse, Hiram Poetry Review, Willows Wept Review, Saw Palm, Numero Cinq, and Story South, among others. She is associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida, and is under contract with Oxford University Press for a new book on creative writing.
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