Kim Addonizio's sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We're Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet's characteristic precision and passion, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Outlander, semiotics, and more.
Combatting existential gloom w...
An essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kal-sarikännit-drinking at home, alone in your underwear, with no intention of going out-Now We're Getting Somewhere charts a hazardous course through heartache, climate change, dental work, Dorothy Parker, John Keats, Outlander, semiotics, and more. The poems are sometimes confessional, sometimes philosophical, weaving from desolation to drollery. A poet whose "voice lifts from the...
Pairs the blues poems of Kim Addonizio with woodcut effigies based on images of a number of significiant blues musicians with the intent of creating "duets” of image and text, each spread becoming a visual composition and each element amplifying the other. Created by Charles D. Jones, the woodcuts are in direct response to the poetry. The limited edition book features 24 poems and 26 images.
Somewhere between Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Amy Schumer's stand-up exists Kim Addonizio's style of storytelling . . . at once biting and vulnerable, nostalgic without ever veering off into sentimentality." -Refinery29"Always vital, clever, and seductive, Addonizio is a secular Anne Lamott, a spiritual aunt to Lena Dunham." -BooklistA dazzling, edgy, laugh-out-loud memoir from the award-winning poet and novelist that reflects on w...
One of the wonderful things about Jimmy & Rita is that Kim Addonizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing themselves into us. We experience the victories and defeats of Jimmy and Rita as they struggle through the boundless claustrophobia of their world.” - Hubert Selby, Jr
The lives of three characters -- an obsessive-compulsive, a pregnant teenager, and the teen's unborn child -- come together in National Book Award finalist and Pushcart Prize winner Kim Addonizio's unsparingly funny and transcendent debut novel.
Diana McBride, a thirty-four-year-old former child pageant contender, now works in a baby store in Long Beach. Between dealing with a catastrophic haircut, the failure of her marriage, and phone cal...
Kim Addonizio's latest collection of poetry is an amazing work. Featuring woodcuts by book artisan Charles D. Jones, My Black Angel is both an auditory pleasure and visual feast.
Inspired by the success of "The Poet's Companion, " Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own journey. Chapters on gender, race, and class challenge readers to explore their vision more deeply.
America's Kim Addonizio has been called 'one of the nation's most provocative and edgy poets'. Her poetry is renowned for its gritty, street-wise narrators and wicked sense of wit.
Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called "Over the Bright and Darkened Lands, " canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. "Except Thou Ravish Me, " reimagines John Donne's famous "Batter my heart, Three-person'd God" as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears "a swarm of objects that call without being an...
The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life-including self-doubt and writer's block-are here, along with tips about getting published and writing in the electronic age. On your own, this book can be your "teacher, " while groups, in or out of the classroom, can profit from sharing weekly ass...
Passionate and irreverent, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit, lament, and desire. In a section called "Over the Bright and Darkened Lands, " canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. "Except Thou Ravish Me, " reimagines John Donne's famous "Batter my heart, Three-person'd God" as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda, Addonizio hears "a swarm of objects that call without being an...
Rita Jackson is a young woman on the skids, spending her time in shelters and on the dot-com-drunk streets of late 1990s San Francisco. She's a young woman haunted by the murder of her mother when she was thirteen, and a young bride haunted by the disappearance of her husband, Jimmy, who split after a nasty argument more than a year earlier. Together Jimmy and Rita were slipping into drugs and hard times. Rita is filled with feelings of guilt ...
Entering its fourth year, "Best NewPoets" has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poetsand a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of its kind, thisannual anthology is made up exclusively of work by writers who have not yetpublished a full-length book. The poems included in this eclectic sampling representthe best from the many that have been nominated by the country's top literarymagazines and writing programs...
With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life's dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the world stage-the war in Iraq, the 2004 Asian tsunami-or inward at struggles with the self, these poems aim at the heart and against the feeling that Lucifer may have already won the day.
from "Lucifer at the Starlite"
Here's my bright idea for...
