Hard Bargain
Cruxes in women’s lives are the subject of the poems in Hard Bargain, including the risks that women take—and the bargains they drive—to achieve autonomy, to safeguard care and pleasure, and to counter misogyny in politics and culture, the workplace and the world of art. Narrators in this book—from Daphne to Dora, and from Callas to Leda—upend received ideas about women’s lives and loves, their rights and reckonings.
From a schoolgirl racing a bull across an Irish field to a suburban shopper following a sparrow out of a mall’s maze, characters claim their freedom. Poems in the chapbook have been featured in Plume, JAMA, PN Review, The Missouri Review, Southern Humanities Review, and The Hopkins Review; the chapbook appears in March 2025 with launch events in Los Angeles and Boston.
It’s available for purchase directly from Lily Poetry Review Books as well as at independent bookstores such as the Grolier Poetry Book Shop and Bedlam Book Café as well as online retailers:
Auguries & Divinations
Auguries & Divinations tracks a young woman's coming of age, attuned to the unspoken liabilities in women's lives, the suburban underworld, and the energies of eros. An older woman becomes the narrator's Beatrice in love and survival, and she returns to the New England of her childhood ready to claim a life of her own making, drawing on the classical practice of augury, or observing birds to discern human fate.
Auguries & Divinations received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize (Bauhan), and the 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club. It's been reviewed in the Boston Globe, Poetry Foundation, LitHub, On the Seawall, Solstice Literary Magazine, New Letters, Blackbird, and the Worcester Magazine, and it's available directly from Bauhan
and at many independent bookstores.
“It has been years since I have read a new poet of such rhetorical sophistication and mastery. Wow. One thinks of the young Robert Lowell. Rhetorical mastery fueled by fury and necessity. Agony shaped and released by intelligence, by art. A breathtaking debut.”
- Frank Bidart
Parturition
The prize-winning chapbook Parturition journeys from the parish of girlhood to womanhood and, geographically, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Ogunquit, Maine. The centerpiece of this collection of love poems and elegies is “The Lucie Odes,” a ten-poem sequence that received The Missouri Review’s Editors’ Prize in 2019. Other award-winning poems include “Louisiana Requiem,” which received Frontier Poetry’s Prize, and “Voyeur,” which received the Frank O’Hara Prize.
Parturition was chosen for the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Award from the Munster Literature Centre in Ireland, and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Widely reviewed, it has received praise in PN Review, Poetry Northwest, Notre Dame Review, Green Mountains Review, Sphinx, and The Critical Flame (featured on the Poetry Foundation).
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“Like Elizabeth Bishop, like Frank Bidart, Treseler makes a mode of scrupulous attention its own kind of passion.” - Maureen N. McLane
