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These poems luxuriate on elegance in a way that feels entirely necessary, the way Garbos eyes lit up the Great Depression or Julie Londons voice puts you in the moods to open your flower. Kwons casually gorgeous lines are the best thing since melted butter.D.A. POWELL There are poems who know the names of trees, poets who dont, and now Christine Kwon, a poet who does know the trees name, but who pretends not to, only sharing with her readers the incredible privacy of DAHLIN Christine Kwon has a playfully no-nonsense way with the agitations of being someones child, someones partner, someones poet, someones self. These people inside me/ make me nervous, she writes, as her poems briskly and brazenly bear the tumults of inwardness. Kwon suffers no fools, but she does suffergrief-stricken, defiant and turning to poetry for a salvation she cant quite trust. This voice is fresh, freshly wounded, clear-eyed, laid bare: They say when you cut into night/ There is no fat/ Only bone.’ Mark Levine
Author: Christine Kwon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press
Published: 03/31/2023
Series: Cowles Poetry Prize Winner
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9798986859309
Language: English
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