Download or read book The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House written by Nick Lantz and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and microscopic—the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and re-naming a family’s short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption. Lantz never lets his subjects or his readers off the hook, plunging head first into worlds that are both eccentric and familiar, alarming and hopeful. Finalist, Foreword Magazine’s Poetry Book of the Year