The Do-Over by Kathleen Ossip

A much anticipated third collection with poems mourning a mother figure, as well as recently deceased cultural icons.

Praise for Kathleen Ossip :

"Ossip conjures delightful and unexpected muses...shrewd and ambitious."

— New York Times Book Review

"The biggest surprise in poetry for 2011 is this second book by Kathleen Ossip. It's got everything one could wish for in a new collection of poems. . . . It's just beautiful. And terrifying."

— Publishers Weekly , Best Books of 2011

"The poet has an uncanny ability to convey what it actually feels like to be alive today...Ossip is one of our foremost ethnographers of contemporary unreality."

— The Believer

"How do you stay in heaven?" Ossip asks, "Is it a kind of sophisticated rewind?" Her third collection of poems is haunted by the idea of 'rewind,' and especially by the teasing possibility that we, too–like the moon, like a plant–may be granted cycles of...