Poetry. In this mystical, almost mythic collection of poems, George Kalamaras brings his readers into a world of images and sound. His poems are sometimes dense, sometimes light, but always delightful. "George Kalamaras's poems turn the poetic process upside down. The result is a poetry that hurtles the reader over the edges of perception and experience. His achievement becomes text as vision, and his visionary completion arrive through the surprise of a magical language"- Ray Gonzalez. "All that month it was harder than it seemed./Couldn't taste enough to talk my vowels/apart, separately. Couldn't love enough/my ache to tone, be pure, become" -- from "Borders My Bent Towards."

Author City: FORT WAYNE, IN USA

George Kalamaras is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990. He is the author of several books of poetry, including KINGDOM OF THROAT-STRUCK LUCK (Elixir Press, 2011), Your Own Ox-Head Mask as Proof (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), GOLD CARP JACK FRUIT MIRRORS (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2008), EVEN THE JAVA SPARROWS CALL YOUR HAIR (Quale Press, 2004), BORDERS MY BENT TOWARD (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), and THE RECUMBENT GALAXY (C&R Press, 2010), co-authored with Alvaro Cardona-Hine. He is the recipient of Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1993) and the Indiana Arts Commission (2001 and 2011). During 1994, he spent several months in India on an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation and the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture. After living many years with their beagle, Barney, George and his wife, writer Mary Ann Cain, have welcomed a new beagle pup, Bootsie, into their home. They live in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and regularly return to northern Colorado, where George and Mary Ann lived for several years in the 1980s.