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The Curve of Things by Kathy Kremins (2024, Trade Paperback) Poetry
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Book Series
- Emerging Voices
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781960327055
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cavankerry Press, The Limited
ISBN-10
1960327054
ISBN-13
9781960327055
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8062944208
Product Key Features
Book Title
Curve of Things
Number of Pages
72 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Women Authors, Lgbt
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
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Reviews
The poems in Kremins's debut volume (after two chapbooks) reflect tenderly on grief and desire, and offer a refreshing embrace of chaos., Kathy Kremins is an observer willing to challenge candor in the physical world while working toward & imagining a more equitable future. Like the title poem suggests, The Curve of Things is an inquisitive collection willing to explore epistemic gatherings as well as the ways in which we love, learn, & hold space for one another. From restorative tercets to enjambed backbeats these poems hold on to lightwaves and grace the heart with hands delicate enough to hold the beating, the breathing, and the deepest of grooves. Celebrating its own siren song in frank honesty, Kremins isn't afraid to navigate the ever changing landscape of our humanity., "Kathy Kremins' debut full-length poetry collection leaves me wet. Wet in my longing to discover all the places and things--"a new moon, an old wooden barrel, your hands cupped," wet for what we didn't know before we knew "the sculptor's fingers" and "the spotted salamander," wet for all the geographies the speaker crosses and caresses with unabashed gratitude and grace, wet in my daydreaming of all the ways lovers and family and friends break and bloom in each other's company like a "blue morning off the foothills/before the sun rises." Never linear and always loud in its wanderlust, The Curve of Things is a manual for living truth. an unapologetic how-to on loving humanity in all its delicate, delicious, and dissettled forms.", " The Curve of Things is honeyed heat and blazing ache. Kathy Kremins queers the natural world in this collection, whispering to a beloved "deeply from long needles" in "Blue Fields" or, in her stunning title poem, mapping lesbian love-making such that plants, animals, human touch, and art-making layer within every gesture: "the geography of your foot / a beagle's howl, the rabbit's route, / my breath on your cheek, red, juicy tomatoes, / the binding of a book..." Here the imagination resurrects, intimacy prays in tongues, and poems are palimpsests - holy, elemental. Too, these poems map what canyons us: waving to a father while "blowing kisses in a direction lined with absence," or in "About the Sadness," bearing witness to the torment of an impossible love. Take a breath as you crease the spine of The Curve of Things open: what lies within is breathtaking.", I feel as if I've been searching for this poetry collection my entire life, and now that I've found it I never want to let it go. Kathy perfectly details the importance and delicacies of queer love, a life lived full of the joyful kindness of nature splashed with a little something us scientific creatives lust after, and a love that feels like biting through a hard exterior just to feel the juicy center dribbling over chapped lips. To read this perfect, rejuvenating collection, is to see into the very soul of Kathy the Creative, Kathy the Lover, and Kathy the Heart of all of us.
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Table Of Content
Diversity of Matter 1: angles of discovery The Curve of Things Chocolate Coming Out in Dublin, 1980 The Fall Blowing Kisses Wild West About the Sadness A Vesper of Sorts To Taste 2: what I didn't know before Tracings Last Long Looks Night Pools Not a Flashy Thing Acushla "Red Leaves" Ask Again Late at Night Mapping how can I say that things are pictures 3: geographies of lives This Place I Love On Her Fourth Birthday Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, 2003 That's All What I Will Leave You Stolen Poem Amor Mundi Mourning Flowers Memory Chain A Controlled Burn 4: recipe for daydreams Torch Song Burnt Deep Grooves Blue Morning Iterations A Canyon in My Throat For Sweetness Blowing Glass Blue Fields Acknowledgments Gratitudes
Synopsis
A heartfelt collection that tumbles through a life of love in all its iterations. In this collection of poems, curves in all their forms--a woman's full hips, a rolling mountain, water's soft bend, or the thrum of Irish immigrants living at the hard edges--are the focus. In their music, these poems celebrate queer love, map loss and liberation, and explore lovers' scars and the knot of kinship that remains even when love fades. Tragic and tender, The Curve of Things traces the ecstatic joys and difficulties of loving women, celebrating this sweeping terrain of desire. A hymn of unapologetic intimacy and delicate language, these poems choose love over defeat and celebrate the warmth that humanity is capable of.
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