The Goner School - Paperback

by Jessica Laser (Author)

2025 Griffin Poetry Prize, FinalistJessica Laser has given her generation a voice and a name in this masterful, funny, and heartbreaking collection, The Goner School. Members of this school, despairing and hopeful, count themselves among the self-aware, trauma-informed inheritors of a warming, warring planet. Childhood, the gym, plant medicine ceremonies, PhD programs, Jews, evangelicals, everyone you've slept with, Lake Michigan, the Bay Area, William James, and Taylor Swift may seem incongruous, but they all take place in one world from which, try as we might, there is no escape.

Author Biography

Jessica Laser is author of, among others, Planet Drill. She teaches at Claremont McKenna College, and lives in Los Angeles, California.