Little Fish

Little Fish, Lorrie Goldensohn’s first collection of new poems since The Tether in 1983, consists mainly of elegies, poems of loss and retrieval, many plunging into family history and friendships cultivated over decades in rural Vermont and in cities from Berkeley to London. A number of poems reflect Goldensohn’s training as a literary critic, and her engagement with the power that other art forms possess to shape, enlarge, and give their momentary luminosity to the vanishing fictions of our own lives. Little Fish concludes with a sequence dedicated to her late husband, the poet Barry Goldensohn.