Morning Ritual

Author: Lisa Rogal

Publisher: United Artists Books (2015)

"Anything can happen in Morning Ritual, and it does: a cold water tap leads one to contemplate murder and a lost cell phone communicates more by its absence than presence. Lisa Rogal's remarkable and strikingly original poems play with form and narrative, spinning the daily quotidian of thoughts, random connections and events into gold."

—Brenda Coultas

"In Rogal's restless poems, the weight of the world and the lightness of being come into play, and all the details, the nerve endings and synapses, that go into every passing moment. Morning Ritual proposes that starting over happens differently every time, even when you are following the same path. Lisa Rogal is the oracle of the future, already here."

—Barbara Henning