Breathe Easy: Air Purifier for Home

"The Living Air" by Masiela Lusha is an exceptional book of poems. Her works, based on formal associations, open a unique poetic vein, with multilayered images that question the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, her poems reference romanticism and symbolism, aiming to amplify the astonishment of the spectator through tranquil poetic compositions that balance on the edge of recognition and alienation.—Geoffrey Gatza, author of Apollo

When I discovered Masiela Lusha's impressive list of accomplishments in the cinematic arts, I was not surprised in the least. Ms. Lusha's poems skillfully dramatize the most ethereal of philosophical ideas, inviting the reader in, then "releasing [them] as a learner," subtly illuminating through its performative poetics the questions we should be asking of the world around us.—Kristina Marie Darling, author of Scorched Altar

"We stalk the truth / As poets," writes Masiela Lusha, in what could stand as the manifesto for this remarkable book. Authoritative yet tender, sensitive yet austere and controlled, these poems explore truth after truth, with echoes of Keats, Donne, Homer, and parable, yet the voice is always distinctly Masiela Lusha's—a formidable talent in contemporary American poetry.—Roger Craik, author of Down Stranger Roads

Masiela Lusha's poems are missives from inner space—heartfelt, evocative lyrics of immediate presence. "A poet is a lonely collector," Lusha writes, inviting readers to walk with her "Where the streets are thin / And the world is tight around me." The Living Air is alive with "alphabets of experience" that celebrate the journey of our lonely (and necessary) collecting.—Tony Trigilio, author of The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood)

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