“A defiant, moving, and fiercely intelligent exploration of the power of art and imagination in the face of death. By confronting the limits of a rational worldview, Marsman takes the reader into visionary spaces—the very spaces where philosophy, poetry, and humanity intersect to give meaning to life. Marsman deserves to take her place among the great memoirists and essayists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion. A beautiful and important work.” —Joanna Pocock, author of Greyhound: A Memoir
“On Another Planet They Can Save Me is a brilliant shock of a book: poetical, philosophical, and so fervently on the side of flux, nuance, imagination, and delight. A call to arms against the destroyer death and death’s angel, despair. Sophie Collins has given us a tender and judicious translation of Lieke Marsman’s literary act of resistance and hope.” —Sasha Dugdale, author of The Strongbox
“Writing can be a lonely exercise, and dying even more so. Lieke Marsman has faced both, head-on, using each experience to explore the other. This book is an act of huge generosity, not only in sharing her vulnerability, but also toward herself—modeling how it’s possible to reflect, wallow, and dream in a way that makes life, after all, livable.” —Adam Zmith, author of Deep Sniff
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