Description
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 Bio
Aby Kaupang is the author of LITTLE "G" GOD GROWS TIRED OF ME (SpringGun Press, 2013), ABSENCE IS SUCH A TRANSPARENT HOUSE (Tebot Bach, 2011) and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable (Scantily Clad Press, 2008). Her work has appeared in FENCE, La Petite Zine, Dusie, Verse, DENVER QUARTERLY, The Laurel Review, Parthenon West, [PANK], AUFGABE, FOURTEEN HILLS, Interim, Caketrain, and elsewhere. Aby holds both an MFA in Creative writing as well as a Master's of Occupational Therapy from Colorado State University. She lives in Fort Collins with her husband, Matthew Cooperman, and their two children.
Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA