"Wildfires and calving glaciers, war mongers, cryptocurrency, woke culture, unchecked technocracy, a demented demagogue, the surveillance state, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer-the dreary earmarks of our zeitgeist seem endless. Laurel Feigenbaum takes them on with the perspicacity of her 96 years on earth and her trademark wit, dry as a three-olive martini. Detailing the global mishigas, she remarks, as if she were Issa's shadow, Meanwhile-I'm busy battling ants in my kitchen. Regarding genetic engineering: Despite my unease.../ at least there'll be chocolate. She imagines her time here as a practice life, preparing her to scat like Ella, Get down and dirty with Etta, and even take on a new lover, all in the next life. Lucky for us, we don't have to wait that long to see Laurel in action. Her Life in No Ordinary Time is a savvy, bracing, and thankfully entertaining antidote to our time, our place."

-Thomas Centolella, author of Almost Human

"Laurel Feigenbaum's Life in No Ordinary Time portrays a world in the present moment and in all that it has been. What a fullness! Wry twists of humor add just the right touch to these meditations of a sharp, connected, sophisticated, knowledgeable, intrigued and intriguing little-old-lady, and detail a life worth living in its accumulated wisdoms and happinesses. Yet because these poems are continually aware of the dire truths of our planet and nation, they manage to capture a great sheaf of time so well in their place and places. But don't just take my words for it! Read "Birding in Little Tobago at 90" to see how this staunch and wily poet hunts the perfect poem with her signature honesty, humility, and insight."

-Doreen Stock, author of A Noise in the Garden and Bye Bye Blackbird