The Grief Performance

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Poetry. "Emily Kendal Frey performs grief and dread as a graceful dance, the kind the tree you cut down in your backyard might do on your heart. This work is light, deft, dangerous. There are perfect poems here, such as 'The End,' which enacts a simple, startling twist on the hoary injunction to 'Walk towards the light.' See, everything you know is wrong. You really have to read this book."—Rae Amrantrout

“I've always found Kendal Frey’s poems fascinating to the point of transfix—they make compelling reading: I’ve never started one I didn’t finish, something I can say of very few other poets’ work. Her first full-length collection surely places her among the most brilliant of today’s young poets. THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE commands and rewards the mind’s richest attendance.” —Bill Knott

“Emily Kendal Frey’s THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE is a book that condenses a journey of finding and re-finding loss into beautiful packages. The packages are the poems and they sit shiny and new on every page of this fabulous and generous book. I want to go into the world that these poems create, just so that I can be given these terrifying presents again and again. I know you will, too. See you there.” —Dorothea Lasky

“Emily Kendal Frey’s poems are made of words that can fake out death, trick abandonment into a bed, turn love into hands. They are rich with sound, brave with secrets, funny (tragic), and open ( ). She will twist up your heart into your next heart. Settle in. There are three dead people in her.” —Zachary Schomburg

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Alissa Fleck @ NewPages
interview by Nicholas Sturm @ Bookslut
Jessica Varin @ The Rumpus
Nick Sturm @ Barn Owl Review
Christie Ann Reynolds @ Sink Review
rob mclennan @ rob mclennan's blog
Winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award in 2012 from the Poetry Society of America
Jessica Bozek @ Zoland Poetry
Trisha Red Campbell @ Bookslut
Virginia Konchan @ The Rumpus

Author Bio

Emily Kendal Frey is the author of LOVABILITY (Fonograf Editions, 2021), THE GRIEF PERFORMANCE (Cleveland State Univeristy Poetry Center, 2011) winner of the 2012 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Soiety of America, and SORROW ARROW (Octopus Books, 2014) winner of the 2015 Oregon Book Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is a teacher and therapist.

Author City: PORTLAND, OR USA

The Grief Performance

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