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Books | Kristin George Bagdanov

Books

MOUTHFUL OF FLESH: review of fossils in the making

New review of Fossils is up at Ecotheo:

the poems function at the height of their powers in a space where direct visceral experience of the page bypasses the barriers of rational exegesis. For all their intellectual demands, ultimately these poems ask you to interact with them deeply as physical, tangible things, as real as a stone trilobite in your hand.  

–Dina Strasser

Read the rest here.

Review of Fossils in the Making

Madeleine Wattenberg, Assistant Editor of the Cincinnati Review has written a thoughtful and compelling review of Fossils in the Making. Here is just one of the many insights she has into the book: 

The final poem, fittingly named “echo / o” turns on its internal sounds; “o” is, after all, the symbol for Oxygen, the gyre’s center, the mark of invocation. The invocation is to anyone—or anything—that is listening. Bagdanov encourages us to make our attempts but also recognize that these attempts are folded within other bodies, that we both carry and are carried by the gyre’s currents. And if our making is an undoing, then perhaps our undoing will be our making too.

Read the rest here.

Happy Pub Day, DIURNE!

Diurne is officially out in the world! You can catch poem 1 here, poem 2, tweeted hourly, here, and poems 3 and 4 here. The rest you’ll have to read in the book, which can be purchased here or here. Check out the events page for upcoming readings, which will feature Fossils and Diurne. 

Also, if you want me to send you a poetry postcard, made in collaboration with Diurne‘s cover artist Pecos Pryor, send me a message!