Poetry. Kim Calder brings the heartfelt sense of loss to bear on her raw, funny, and heartbreaking debut collection of poems. "As a first book which portends many more to come, it ranks with Sharon Olds' Satan Says, Dorianne Laux's Awake, and Richard Jones' Country of Air"--Jack Grapes. "Kim Calder doesn't kid herself. Her poems are full of sharp, swift observations that turn around, at the last minute, to trip the poet up--and that's after she's already caught us, her readers, in the act of hoping she'll go easy on us. No such luck. These are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always well-wrought. I'm eager for them to find their readers. But look out--they already know what you're thinking"--Chris Nealon.

Author City: COLLEGE PARK, MD USA

Kim Calder received her Master's degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and her Bachelor's in English from the University of California at Berkeley in Contemporary Poetry and Fiction. Published in various nationally distributed literary journals and author of four chapbooks, she has been a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writers Collective since the year 2000, and has participated in numerous spoken word events throughout Southern California. She teaches writing workshops nationally.

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