[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.
[ ](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250367686/lookingatwomenlookingatwar/)
Meetup Structure:
We will meet at Arpeggio Restaurant to discuss the book over dinner. We are expected to order food and drinks at the venue. After Introductions, we will have an open discussion on the book. Multiple copiess of the book are available at Austin Public Library.
