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Awful Baby

Red Paint Hill, 2015
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Mary Lou Buschi crafts elegant, dreamlike lyrics out of the fragments of disappearing memories and ruined worlds. Her leaps illuminate the charged midnights between images. With its surrealism of suburban childhoods and unstable sly truths, this Awful Baby floats above us all.

—Joanna Fuhrman, author of The Year of Yellow Butterflies

Mary Lou Buschi's Awful Baby is a wonderful book. There are moments of light and moments of darkness in her poems and a diversity of worlds in a single voice. The interplay dazzles, the poems dance and never move far from a deeply-felt humanity. Charged with energy, humor and compassion, Awful Baby reminds us that what truly matters is not triumph but engagement with all that life presents to us.

—Pablo Medina, author of Cubop City Blues