Flowers, Paul Killebrew

Flowers

Paul Killebrew

Publisher: Canarium Books
PubDate: 4/1/2010
ISBN: 9780982237625
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $14.00
Quantity Available: 29
Pages: 88
 

Poetry. Paul Killebrew's much-anticipated full-length debut, FLOWERS, breaks open the American dream at its weakest parts, to find intrigue, sadness, humor, possibility, and new ways to question motives and metaphors. Killebrew is a bold inheritor of the lyrical tradition that dares to sing of the world as an intimate thing. In the words of Tomaž Šalamun, "to read him is a delight."

Author City: NEW ORLEANS, LA USA

Paul Killebrew was born and raised in Tennessee. He now lives in Louisiana, where he works as a lawyer at Innocence Project New Orleans. His chapbook, Forget Rita, was chosen by John Ashbery for the PSA New York Chapbook Fellowship competition, and another chapbook, Inspector Vs. Envader, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Reviews and Other Links
Jeremy Benson in New Pages
Interview by Jack Palmer in BOMBlog
James Stotts @ The Critical Flame
Dan Magers in Harp & Altar
Poetry Foundation Stack Picks Best of 2010: Fred Sasaki
Publishers Weekly
James Stotts @ The Critical Flame




“All my poet friends mourned when Paul told us he’d be going into law, so soon after he appeared on the scene as a supernova. ‘No fear. The blue light. My breath washing out in the air.’ Yes. He came out strengthened. Grown in imagination. Bigger in his lucid scanning of America. Rejuvenating. To read him is a delight.”
—Tomaž Šalamun

“I thought: ‘this is an anecdotal phenomenology’ and looked up the derivation of anecdote: ‘thing given out.’ These poems keep giving and giving out; anecdotes evaporate and recrudesce in a different form, in new detail. Meaning emerges as each observation defamiliarizes the next and the prior. An epistemology punctured with an affectionate loathing opens out into love. Agonized, startled, startling wit. Truthtelling that fails because it’s truthful. These poems leave me alert to the floating world. Welcome Paul Killebrew, tabula rascal.”
—Catherine Wagner

“[Killebrew] plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it, why we’re in it for the long haul, wherever the carpool takes us.”
—John Ashbery


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