Dark Archive

"You know you can't right the disaster, or even write the disaster, but now you know, in reading Dark Archive, that you can ride the evanescence that comes before and after. Mullen's shapes shift, disappear like the living but remain like lives, as sharp curved traces, jarred angles of incidence/vantage/glance. See how veer, wander, being dragged, suffering restructuring, turn into new solids, solidarities of moving, hard-edged lyric social work in solitude, for the crowd, against loneliness, which is really, really cool."

--Fred Moten, author of Hughson's Tavern



Praise for Subject:

"Compelling."

Julie Reid, Poetry Project Newsletter



"Subject limns the rough and ragged borders of identity. It needles though traditional ideas of what occurs within self and outside of (without) self."

Geoffrey Goodwin, Spider Words Magazine





Praise for After I Was Dead:

"A powerful reconstruction of self. . .. Wildly versatile formally, restlessly roving from verse to prose to epistle and back. Taken collectively it reads as resistance of structures."

Sam White, Boston Review



The poems in After I Was Dead expose language where it is most vulnerable, most likely to fail: in the abstract diction of human speech. The voice feels actual, audible."

Kim Fortier, Rain Taxi



"Despite the reassurances of our good looks with which lesser poets woo us, we are not so dead that we do not respond with a kind of happiness to this unexpected demonstration that truth really is beauty."

Christopher Davis, The Journal

Laura Mullen's first collection of poems, The Surface, was chosen as a National Poetry Series selection; her second collection, After I Was Dead, was selected for the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series. She is also the author of Subject (UC Press), and two hybrid texts: The Tales of Horror and Murmur.