Description
Poetry. "Heavenly and dangerous at the speculative edge of the West, 'up to and including the time of the fire,' between carnival and fairy tale, diorama and shoot-out, these deep matter tableaus tell us a thousand things about ourselves we haven't usually time or heart to examine. What origami spirit animal did I fold in my head? Did I hear my fate coming like the hero who 'heard the sound of his own boots on the boards moments before he fell like a beef?' And there's no end to the territory in which heroes, wolves, and Little Red take a risk. Abraham leads us out of the forest onto the high plains. She charts pain and wonder, which are sometimes indistinguishable one from the other, from us, 'two cahoots, caught in a swivet."—Danielle Pafunda
Author Bio
Kristin Abraham is the author of ORANGE REMINDS YOU OF LISTENING (Elixir Press, 2006), LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD MISSED THE BUS (Subito Press, 2008) and THE DISAPPEARING COWBOY TRICK (Horse Less Press, 2013). Her poem "Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus" appears in Best New Poets 2005. Her poetry, lyric essays, and critical essays have appeared or will appear in such places as Lit, The Journal, The Tiny, Caketrain, Columbia Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Cafe Review, Rattle, Court Green, Columbia Poetry Review, and American Letters & Commentary. She teaches at Laramie County Community College in Wyoming, and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she serves as editor-in-chief and poetry editor of the literary magazine Spittoon.
Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA