You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake

is] the way she theorizes and reflects on the seemingly immeasurable movements of our broken era. In her books, poetry is enacted as a living, compassionate and dynamic process.” —Galatea Resurrects “If the title of Moschovakis’s second collection reads like a textbook logic problem, it’s because Moschovakis not only confronts her readers with a series of logical and philosophical dilemmas but also questions the possibility of such investigation. . . . Throughout the book, Moschovakis maintains a strongly clinical detachment even in the face of cultural crisis. Yet if it is cynicism that drives Moschovakis to inhabit structures of capitalism, technology, consumerism, Western philosophy, and religion, the assumption of these various positions nevertheless allows a necessary poetry of critique: her poems subject each of these structures to constant, and troubling, poetic pressure from within.” —Publishers Weekly “Because I am only one reader approaching a lake, and for me, this lake is connected to noise and entanglements of vagus nerves angular and brightly lit, relentless as a sound of information, relentless as the precise and dynamic upturned canoe of information.” —The Rumpus “If history has been the history of systems that turn persons into functions (human machines), Moschovakis’ poetry is a counter-system whose loving jokes and satiric repetitions reflood machinery with personhood.” —Lana Turner Journal “You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake is witty, thought-provoking, and (for me) impossible to put down.” —Loads of Learned Lumber “The book fairly bristles with bits and pieces: historical figures flash by, then a scrap of dialogue, perhaps, then some found text, then population figures and a résumé, separated by Prisoner’s Dilemma–type interpositions, like ‘A glass of milk / or / a cigarette / but not both.’” —On the Seawall