Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 Louis Aragon Her first collection Beauty/Beauty won

Her first collection Beauty/Beauty won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017

how beauty is more a moment than an 'object'

following two earlier collections

The borders of the real and the imaginary are frequently breached here

Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> Louis Aragon Her first collection Beauty/Beauty wonA 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