Lisa Olstein's third collection reverberates with twinned realities: wonder and terror, beauty and difficulty, celebration and lament. Through encounters with science, war, art, animals, and motherhood, _Little Stranger _explores the exigencies of close attention, the tenuousness of attachment, and the ever more rapidly shifting nature of knowledge. Intimate lyrics, elegies, and narratives speak in voices familiar yet strange. Lisa Olstein's debut collection of poetry, _Radio Crackling_, _Radio Gone_ (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), won the Hayden Carruth Award, and her second volume, _Lost Alphabet_ (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), was named a "Best Poetry Book of the Year" by _Library Journal_. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.