Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge
PBS Recommendation Winter 2020 TS Eliot Prize with old loves hanging around

with old loves hanging around in the corners of dark rooms

the ploughs of French and Belgian farmers uncover shrapnel

though you've been smuggled from polite conversation

James Merrill

Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge <br><b>PBS Recommendation Winter 2020</b> TS Eliot Prize with old loves hanging aroundA 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