Leah Souffrant is the author of Entanglements and Plain Burned Things.
"Studying Entanglements entangles me in Souffrant’s open-hearted archive, and renews my faith in the poetics of bibliomancy”
— Wayne Koestenbaum“The force of Leah Souffrant’s roving, probing mind and the remarkable distances it both maps and collapses is exquisite.”
— Jenny Xie
Entanglements: threads woven from history, memory, and the body is available from Unbound Edition Press here (as well as at Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local bookstore or library). Listen to a podcast interview about the book at Authors Unbound. Kirkus Reviews calls Entanglements “gorgeous.”
“Entanglements is a true “text” in the etymological traces of the word: both the act of weaving and the object woven.”
— Chris Campanioni
Souffrant's book Plain Burned Things: A Poetics of the Unsayable is available from the Collection Clinamen imprint in interdisciplinary poetics from les Presses Universitaires de Liège.
"Leah Souffrant, with laudably quiet gestures, reaches lyrically into literature's silent places to delineate the thermodynamics of the lacuna. Working the pauses, she does a Duras: nimble, stunned, alert. Hats off to Souffrant for the elliptical beauty she unearths and — with interpretive deftness — performs!"
— Wayne Koestenbaum on Plain Burned Things
Read A More Visceral Sense of Language’s Limitations, Leah Souffrant’s discussion (with Liesl Schwabe) of creating art and poetry in Speak the Magazine.
Featured in the Studio Lab Showcase, “Thread: Riddle of the Physical” appears in Seisma Magazine, a journal dedicated to the intersection between science and art.
Leah Souffrant’s Afterword to In Praise of Fragments by Meena Alexander was published in 2020 by Nightboat Books.
In 2020, Souffrant’s The Same World was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
“To look so unflinchingly at the invisible web that holds everything together, to feel its umbilical tug on your own life, requires a form of courage that Souffrant has in spades and, with her writing, she’ll lend you some.”
— Abby Paige“Simply put, [Entanglements] is a gorgeous book—and the reader will, too, become entangled in its brilliance and artistry and emerge changed.
— Tyler Mills