Low, Lisa 2022
But in the privacy
of my own home, I stroke my hair
like a hipster who wants wisdom
from his beard. I can’t stop admiring
myself to my husband, who isn’t
as amazed as I am about follicles containing
2 or 3 strands, or the different lengths
of hair like actual grass. My first
female friend with armpit hair was beautiful
and, of course, white, and I lived for a few years
in a town full of organic gardening, armpit hair,
and white feminism.
– Lisa Low, “Ode to Armpit Hair”
Watch Lisa Low’s 2022 reading with Carlina Duan at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Lisa Low begins at 19:02 minutes.
Read Lisa Low’s interview with The Massachusetts Review:
10 Questions for Lisa Low
Massachusetts Review
In childhood, I watched strangers speak in slow motion to my mother in a language she started learning when she was five. I watched their lips—their eyebrows like someone holding a toy out to a child.
– Lisa Low, “My Mother’s Body in America”
Listen to Lisa Low speak with Su Cho and Marianne Chan on The Poetry Magazine Podcast:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/156446/su-cho-in-conversation-with-marianne-chan-and-lisa-low
