Book-Club & Dinner Event: The Imaginary Age by Leanna Petronella

[We are reading the award-winning collection of poetry by Leonna Petronella who is also a longtime member of our meetup!](https://lsupress.org/9780807171523/the-imaginary-age/) [Available online at LSU Press](https://lsupress.org/9780807171523/the-imaginary-age/) **The author will be in attendance!** ["This is a book of transport that turns the imagination into a bathysphere, a spacecraft, a carousel. Petronella is not afraid to examine matters of sex, blood, private calamity with bold wit and verve. And while a whimsical intellect drives these poems through childhood closets and vivid menageries, the reader notes the signs of peril littering such a landscape: “unsepulchered girlish legs,” “wasps and teeth,” “pieces of beak.” Come ride this exquisite vessel of ](https://leannapetronella.com/)*[The Imaginary Age](https://leannapetronella.com/)*[, whose shadows leave a strange calligraphy on the ground."--—Carolina Ebeid, author of ](https://leannapetronella.com/)*[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior](https://leannapetronella.com/)* **Leanna Petronella** is a poet and writer whose works have appeared in the *Beloit Poetry Journal*, *Third Coast*, *Birmingham Poetry Review*, *Drunken Boat*, and *Brevity*. She holds a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri, where she was poetry editor for the *Missouri Review*, and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Austin.