Love and the Eye was selected by Claudia Rankine for the 2010 Kore Press First Book Award. It is available through Amazon, at select bookstores, and also directly from Kore Press.

Laura Newbern's Love and the Eye is both playful and grave, wry and intimate. It is self-deprecating and yet in its way it makes a passionate claim on life; it is precise and yet has the sideways movement of dreams. Newbern speaks in a voice completely her own, showing us everything from an angle we hadn't seen. Women and girls, especially—these, Newbern sees with surprising and revelatory clarity. This is a book to be welcomed and cherished.

—Reginald Gibbons

Newbern gives us a transformative vision in which beauty is evident everywhere: mosquitos as "a thousand/black lace stars/hugging the white walls: sadness that hangs.../like a sumptuous grape." Shining sadness limns these poems—quiet grief like the dark edge of a cloud or field: ever-present and capable of making one who loves love harder.

—Natasha Trethewey