ARGONAUT BOOKS

Still Life With Defeats is, like all good poetry, an attempted response to those questions that seem unanswerable. Reviews In "Elegy for the Road," Tatiana Orono writes, "Poetry is the place where the things go that have no solution." Her book, Still Life with Defeats, provides the solution I didn't know I needed. What gratitude I feel to Jesse Lee Kercheval for this inspired translation. Without it, we'd be bereft of Orono's taut, compelling poems, rich with sly surprise and haunting imagery. -Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, W. W. Norton...Read More