You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake
A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure.
"[Moschovakis'] poems illuminate, amuse, and provoke. Plato would have loved them."—Ann Lauterbach
In a world where we find "everything helping itself / to everything else," Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific research, autobiographical detail, and historical anecdote to present an engaging lyric analysis of the way we live now. "It's your life," she tells the reader, "and we have come to celebrate it."
Anna Moschovakis is a writer, translator, and editor with an interest in crossing modes of poetry, narrative, philosophy, and documentary prose. She’s the author of three books, including You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House 2011, winner of the James Laughlin Award) and They and We Will Get into Trouble for This (Coffee House 2016), and more than a dozen chapbooks.She is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and in 2015 she co-founded Bushel, a collectively run art and community space in Delhi, NY.
