Poetry. Of MYSTERIOUS PERIPHERIES, Patrick Pritchett writes that "the Orphic and the hermetic are mysteriously conjoined to produce a truly clarifying luminosity, one that charts the epistemic folds and fault lines of all our narratives of being, even as it deepens the subtle degrees of ambiguity that haunt the body and the body of the poem." Dan Featherston concurs, arguing that in an age in which "we grow sick with the phantom horizons separating self from other, nation from nation, culture from culture," Karen Kelley's poetry provides us with "corrective vista." MYSTERIOUS PERIPHERIES is Karen Kelley's third book of poetry.