Poetry. "The shifting form, the use of negative space, stalled and interrupted cadence and even the syncopated release of irony work in themselves to create meaning along with, in opposition to and simultaneously with the abstracted center. Each section offers this startling relationship and the sections together repeat this for the whole. Every poem here is a riddle of sorts, but there is no joke. There is an illusion of fragmentation and also of cohesion and illusion becomes just that. These poems cannot be reduced to their content, but neither can content be in any way understood as mere device. This work is aching to get into the world and mean things. It will."—Percival Everett

Author City: MOSCOW, ID USA

Kimberly Burwick was raised in Massachusetts, and has since lived in the Czech Republic and Western Wyoming, where she began writing and mountaineering. Kimberly Burwick received a B.A. in literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in poetry from Antioch University in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in multiple journals, including FENCE, The Literary Review, Water-Stone Review, International Poetry Review, and The Comstock Review. She currently teaches at Washington State University, and for UCLA's online extension program. She is the author of HAS NO KINSMEN (Black Goat, 2006) and HORSES IN THE CATHEDRAL (Anhinga Press, 2011).