"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret."—InDigest Magazine, InDigest Picks Go, brave and gentle reader, with Dorothea Lasky to the "purple motel / where the bird lives." Go with her, as you have willingly gone down the dark passages before, with her bare-faced poems for guidance. 's controlled rage plunges into the black interior armed with nothing but guts and Lasky's own fiery heart to light the way. is also the author of and , both from Wave Books. She lives in New York.