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Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, while interrogating the past for clues that might explain why, as the speaker bemoans, "there are never enough nails in the coffin of poor choices." While Egger throws confetti on the quotidian, she disarms the reader with earnestness and vulnerability. Rich in metaphor, affable and self-deprecating, the poems in Flop Era shine a spotlight on regret, infidelity, the feminine ideal, fear of death, and fear of insignificance.
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"In Lara Egger's Flop Era, the familiar is always teetering into the unfamiliar, but even more exciting is the way the unfamiliar tips into something palpable and all the more disquieting. 'Have you ever asked your doctor / if Ennui ® is right for you?' she asks. These are poems of surprise that demand a reader feel the presence of a vivid and thinking mind. Egger offers us not just elegance but a
C. Dale Young, author of Building the Perfect Animal
"Modern poetry readers who have ever thought, 'The future is best observed from a Ferris wheel,' will find Lara Egger's hair-trigger, rapid-fire associations in Flop Era full of hard-won truths like 'darkness doesn't fall, but rises'; the pull of her poems taking readers for a satisfying and surprising carnival ride above the quotidian to glimpse the extraordinary."
Chris Banks, author of Deepfake Serenade
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