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Drift Paperback - 2005

by Mary Kinzie


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"The world is touched and stands forth," writes Mary Kinzie in this book of seductive poetic experiment. In lines by turns fragmented and reflective, she shatters and reassembles such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy. In one of her many powerful longer pieces, she collects glittering shards from myriad versions of the Cinderella story: Was the young girl running
out of it because
--recall the blood
within the shoe?--
it hurt her?
Kinzie's verse moves mysteriously between folk-lore and urban devastation, between white magic and the concoction of mood drugs in the modern laboratory. In each poem, she draws our attention to the chinks of light in the dark narratives that surround us, in a language animated by her sympathy and deep moral intelligence.

Details

  • Title Drift
  • Author Mary Kinzie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 76
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
  • Date February 22, 2005
  • ISBN 9780375709906 / 0375709908
  • Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.3 x 0.28 in (24.03 x 16.00 x 0.71 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002069427
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

Excerpt

Close Path

What have I trained forwhat
have the years of
whatever I did
during them
made me
ready to take on
if the tears are to
stream coldly
like long streaks
of rain down the light
brick of the storehouse
and I become
afraid to look
lest the pain
travel
with my breathing
its path
near enough
to disappear
down


From the Hardcover edition.

Media reviews

“Each statement becomes a kind of victory . . . Kinzie engages her readers in a passionate dialectic proving that ‘it was/Right to live.’”
–Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal

“The quiet but striking poems . . . span the page like spinal cords, or twists of DNA, each word dense and weighted with meaning, thrumming with pent-up power, a tamped-down fire that ignites slowly in the reader’s mind.”
–Dona Seaman, Booklist

Drift adds luster to Kinzie’s reputation of fine craftsmanship in many styles and forms . . . her lyricism is elegant.”
–Charles Guenther, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Kinzie’s poems attain an expressive restraint, holding their meanings together line by line, one word at a time . . . [her] polish and rigorous observation are manifest.”
–Tom Devaney, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Plato would have been drawn to Mary Kinzie’s remarkable poems and to their vision of the human, assailed and deformed but still thinking . . . the poems themselves are a demonstration of the soul, of the permanent possibility of thought.”
–Martha Nussbaum, Poetry



From the Hardcover edition.

About the author

Mary Kinzie is the author of A Poet's Guide to Poetry and five earlier collections, including Summers of Vietnam, Autumn Eros, and Ghost Ship. She teaches in the creative writing program she founded two decades ago at Northwestern University.
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