Böcker av Laura Madeline Wiseman

"Warning: south of the train tracks, a Martian dream. Stranger still, habitable worlds abound. Wander through them, the lunar greenhouse full of NASA-planted lettuce, the fields of genetically modified soybeans, the tips to save your life. Like a Martian, 'ooh and ahh at crescent moons, the meteor showers.' Absorb this motion, before it vanishes. What's staged and what's real? What mechanism clears away panic and fear from a landscape, until it awaits pilgrims? The answers, or not-answers, are within the galaxies of AMERICAN GALACTIC."-- Monica Wendel, author of CALL IT A WINDOW and NO APOCALYPSE"Look out, the Martians have landed! And they're having a poetic romp with Laura Madeline Wiseman. Her narrator opens the door 'with a bowl of chocolate, suckers and quarters, ' and the little green creatures move right into her house, her garden, her outings, her community... even her mind. By the end of this quirky, imaginative, and well-researched collection, you'll wonder whether we all indeed carry around our own Martians."-- Ellaraine Lockie, author of STROKING DAVID'S LEG and COFFEE HOUSE CONFESSIONS"AMERICAN GALACTIC is a reminder that good astronomers and great poets are driven by imagination. These interplanetary poems are rich with it, taking the reader on a trip to new, unexplored landscapes with heart and humor. Playfulness, curiosity and surprise infuse the poems, in which Laura Madeline Wiseman puts the reader right up front in the face of 'the other, ' to confront a stranger, strangely familiar."-- Sarah J. Sloat, author of HOME BODIES and INKSUITE"The Martians have landed in AMERICAN GALACTIC, and the more Wiseman reveals about those little green aliens and their odd habits, the more we learn about our own human nature. This collection is more fun than a Cold War sci-fi flick plus a bag of buttered popcorn."-- Julie Kane, author of RHYTHM AND BOOZE and PAPER BULLETS

Signs: Savannah to Key West documents an 800-mile, 13-day bicycle ride in 2018-2019. It starts fifty miles outside Savannah, Georgia, and follows the Atlantic coastline to Key West, Florida. The trip culminates in Niceville to visit a grandparent, a military veteran and an engineer born in 1924. A bicycle carries a rider through place. The voices of family carry us back and forth through time. The best journeys end with welcome visits with friends, family, and stories, those memories that hold us together, the signs that we belong.

Great River Legs is a lyric collection of prose poetry, creative nonfiction, and found poetry. This creative response documents my 1,398 mile, 25-day bicycle ride from Muscatine, Iowa, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between October 2017-March 2018. The journey took place in legs over breaks during the school year, with two additional back-to-back weekend rides that started the adventure.Wiseman embraces the many parts of herself-cyclist, data collector, meditation practitioner, nature lover, quiet observer-and brings them together in a seamless, profound, and captivating way. - Dawn Mauricioauthor of Mindfulness Meditation for BeginnersThrough small bursts of lyric prose, Wiseman explores the ways "we can begin again," how we test ourselves on paths that are "steep and dangerous" while learning to accept that we can never "control the day's rotation."- Jehanne Dubrow, author of throughsmoke: an essay in notes