Poems that contemplate how different societies and diverse artistic traditions choose to house, husband, or murder the wild and passionate at the core of existence.--
Lise Goett's second book, Leprosarium, also published by Tupelo, was the 2012 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award in Poetry from the Poetry Society of America for best manuscript-in-progress. Her other awards include the Paris Review Discovery Award, The Pen Southwest Book Award in Poetry, Capricorn Prize from the West Side Y, James D. Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation, and the Barnard New Women Poets Prize for her first poetry collection, Waiting for the Paraclete, as well as postgraduate fellowships from the Milton Center and the Creative Writing Institute at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Image, Mandorla, and the Antioch Review. She teaches generative workshops and edits poetry manuscripts for publication out of her home in Taos, New Mexico.
