Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 TS Eliot Prize “an ongoing discussion with myself”

“an ongoing discussion with myself”

James Merrill

In Angel Hill the imaginations of poet and painter intermingle and two exacting wildernesses productively overlap

with old loves hanging around in the corners of dark rooms

Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> TS Eliot Prize “an ongoing discussion with myself”A visionary debut collection exploring our intimate and ecological dependencies. When Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation, he noted that, while most organisms perished from lack of oxygen, some were able to thrive as 'life without air'. In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships and institutions, to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations. Both