Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
Elegiac and darkly humorous, the poems in Lisa C. Kruger’s sixth collection of poems explore what it means to be human in a world where destruction and transformation of the natural world take on mythic proportions. What part do we play in our own destiny? Can we believe in science? How do we know what is simulated, what is fake? When you tell me that you love me, what exactly do you mean? Darling Now proffers a unique blend of love poems and provocative mythic anecdotes that ask us to consider the constraints of personal identity in a world where boundaries between the real and imagined are in flux. There is visceral intimacy between flagrant events of the external world and our own inner cosmos.
Lisa C. Krueger, PhD, MFA, is a clinical psychologist. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including most recently, Floriography Child (Red Hen Press, 2023). Her poems and essays have appeared widely in journals that include Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, The Writers’ Chronicle, LitHub, and Psychology Today, and was featured on The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith. Her work has been a finalist for numerous prizes and received the Poetry International Prize in 2025. She maintains a therapy practice in Pasadena.