Lazarus Species by Walker-Figueroa, Devon
Lazarus Species by Walker-Figueroa, Devon

Lazarus Species

From the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal...
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Please hurry! Only 130 left in stock
Author: Devon Walker-Figueroa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: $26.92

Free Shipping (Orders $60 USD or More)

Lazarus Species by Walker-Figueroa, Devon

Lazarus Species

$26.92
Lazarus Species by Walker-Figueroa, Devon

Lazarus Species

$26.92
Author: Devon Walker-Figueroa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

From the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal survival.

Traversing historical, terrestrial, and discursive limits, Devon Walker-Figueroa brings a chorus of perspectives, eras, idioms, and ideals into novel if not turbulent dialogue. In this dazzling second collection, bursting with detailed case studies, obscure natural phenomena, and flagrant apocrypha, these poems calculate the debilitating and contorting costs of survival. "You find your family, / your whole phyla & future, buried / in some encyclopedia & glean / how small the risk of eternity," she imagines, addressing the consciousness of a "Lazarus species"--creatures thought vanished, even while they live.

Here, classical poetic forms meet postmodern notations and aerospace architecture meets Babylonian hymns, all of them wrestling with the aberrant existence we yield to in life, and wield against other lives. We read into the worlds of a tormented Lawrence of Arabia, our special ancestor Australopithecus, Tesla's space dummy Starman, and other brilliantly posed figures and sagas in indelible spaces like "The Euthanasia Coaster," a "Desert Theater," and "Paradise Lust."

Conceptually driven and blooming with a lyricism at once tender and razor-sharp, Lazarus Species knows no bounds in the exploration of an evolutionary, archeological, and interstellar vision.



Author: Devon Walker-Figueroa
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 11/18/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.35h x 6.30w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781571315779


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/20/2025

About the Author
Devon Walker-Figueroa grew up in Kings Valley, a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range, and received her education from Chemeketa Community College, Cornell University, Bennington College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and New York University, where she was the Jill Davis Fellow in fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Zyzzyva, and her debut collection of poems, Philomath, was selected by Sally Keith for the National Poetry Series, won the Levis Reading Prize, and was the first collection of poems to be a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Walker-Figueroa has worked as a professional ballet and modern dancer, research assistant, classical harpist, bartender, literary editor, and creative writing instructor and is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Shipping & Return

Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Review

Related Products

Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD
Example product title
$26.92 AUD
$26.92 AUD

Recently Viewed Products