Poetry. ABSENCE is insatiable, its boundless appetite preys upon the imagination in ways that language can only hint at. Which is perhaps why poetry is a so apt a vessel for responding to absence: its bare branch lines, its chapel whispers, its embodied silences encapsulate loss in ways other forms of art cannot. Aby Kaupang's poems are inhabited by spirits; they literally speak in tongues; they are 'a tender haunting in the glass beneath the waves.' Anyone who has borne grief will recognize its teethmarks here: grief not just as an idea in the mind, but gnawing at the body, the place where it is most keenly felt"—D. A. Powell.

Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA

Aby Kaupang is the author of ABSENCE IS SUCH A TRANSPARENT HOUSE (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in VOLT, Verse, DENVER QUARTERLY, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, AUFGABE, FOURTEEN HILLS , Interim, Caketrain, lo-ball and others. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and is now slogging through her MS in Occupational Therapy.

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