<DIV><p>Lisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. Through encounters with science, war, art, animals, and motherhood, <I>Little Stranger </I>explores the exigencies of close attention, the tenuousness of attachment, and the ever more rapidly shifting nature of knowledge. Intimate lyrics, elegies, and narratives speak in voices familiar yet strange.</p><p>Lisa Olstein's debut collection of poetry, <I>Radio Crackling</I>, <I>Radio Gone</I> (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the Hayden Carruth Award, and her second volume, <I>Lost Alphabet</I> (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), was named a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" by <I>Library Journal</I>. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.</p><BR></DIV>