When No Other Notes Are Found
Lauri Robertson
ISBN 978-1-969900-33-4 100 pages $18.00
Lauri Robertson’s poetry is in full bloom. Her latest work, ...& Tremolos, is her most mature, most profound, and most wide ranging to date. The pleasure of reading her work is considerable, to be savored slowly, and lingers long after reading. Pour yourself some tea, a scotch, or whatever you prefer, then sit back and give these poems the attention they deserve.
—Mark Wheeler
This volume, which Robertson claims will be her last, offers biting militancy, exasperation, resignation, bereavement, and goofiness as a defense against despair in a jagged world. With urgency, patience and longing for closure, she offers an at times breathless refrain: What is a (good) moral life?
—Barbara DiMauro, author of Not Always Sorrow,
and On This Earth
Lauri Robertson has been a poet who uses narrative gently to convey meaning. In ...& Tremolos she also uses language to search for meaning, and one realizes what a beguiling proposition that is. There is sense, and there is quest. Philosophical and aphoristic, she again asks language to sing, or can’t escape it.
—Ilaria Pellegrini
Lauri Robertson has written poetry for many years – Adrienne Rich was her mentor. ...& Tremolos is her 7th monograph. She’s a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, formerly on the clinical faculty of Yale Medical School, now living in Loire Valley, France. She is also a fine art photographer, represented on Nantucket by The Gallery at Four India. laurirobertson.com