Close to Something Beautiful
Lauren Villa’s sensuous debut is rife with playful and provocative language through which the poet explores sexuality and power dynamics. Refreshingly brazen, Villa’s poems create tension between toughness and tenderness, grit and romance, ambivalence and longing. Villa writes with confidence and curiosity, and her poems not only offer her readers “A bone to chew on,” but also create a vivid world that hangs in the balance between something beautiful and something dark and unyielding, something “tough as railroad tracks.”
— Elizabeth Hazen, author of Girls Like Us
The Hospice Bubble & Other Devastating Affirmations
