Poetry. "Only when The entire world looks different and I will never be able to see the old world again can the speaker of MASTERING THE DREAM maneuver through epistle, poetry, Jewish thought, late-night TV, Plath, tattoo parlors, and a fear of death to begin to answer herself. Reminding us that Information is not knowledge and questioning the boundaries between everything, between fiction and nonfiction, dream and reality, past and future, science and metaphor, she sets a third term between each--poetry, ecstatic vision, present, theology--in order to suggest some preliminary answers: there's no such thing as either/or: there's only and & and & and"--Brian Teare.

Author Hometown: New York City, NY USA



About the author: Kelly Lydick received her B.A. in Writing and Literature from Burlington College, in Burlington Vermont and her M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California. She is the author of Mastering the Dream (Second Story Books, 2007) and We Once Were, a chapbook published by Pure Carbon Publishing. Other work has appeared in Twittering Machine, Published in Moments and Burlington College Poetry Journal.

Reviews:
http://telegraph-books.net/mondayarchive/audio/080219-lydick.mp3
http://www.kellylydick.com/
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