“All my poet friends mourned when Paul told us he’d be going into law, so soon after he appeared on the scene as a supernova. ‘No fear. The blue light. My breath washing out in the air.’ Yes. He came out strengthened. Grown in imagination. Bigger in his lucid scanning of America. Rejuvenating. To read him is a delight.” - Tomaz Salamun “I thought: ‘this is an anecdotal phenomenology’ and looked up the derivation of anecdote: ‘thing given out.’ These poems keep giving and giving out; anecdotes evaporate and recrudesce in a different form, in new detail. Meaning emerges as each observation defamiliarizes the next and the prior. An epistemology punctured with an affectionate loathing opens out into love. Agonized, startled, startling wit. Truthtelling that fails because it’s truthful. These poems leave me alert to the floating world. Welcome Paul Killebrew, tabula rascal.” - Catherine Wagner “[Killebrew] plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it, why we’re in it for the long haul, wherever the carpool takes us.” - John Ashbery

Flowers

Literature & Fiction

Killebrew, Paul

Poetry

Canarium Books

Poetry. In the "calm and dangerous city" of his second book, ETHICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, Paul Killebrew asks sharp questions in his characteristically warm voice. Can an ethical artist be dishonest? What are the political and duty-creating dimensions that the form of a person's perceptions of the world create? "What would it even mean to be implicit?"

Ethical Consciousness

Poetry. Paul Killebrew's third book, TO LITERALLY YOU, is largely concerned with the passage of time and how the sincerity and tenderness of domestic life endure despite greater horrors and "the loop of assemblage / this world so relentlessly / resembles." "We commit crimes / and show ourselves and each other / unbelievable mercy," Killebrew writes, and he's a human rights lawyer, so he should know.

To Literally You

A dazzling new double-bill about being alive these times, by Paul Killebrew, who John Ashbery said "plunges us into a world we inhabit but seldom notice, forcing its horror on us but also reminding us why we go on coping with it." Paul Killebrew's new book contains two distinct and brilliant collections: IMPERSONAL RAINBOW gathers short meditations on life and its many sensations; THE BISEXUAL PURGE is a long poem which discusses "legal developments, cases, and arguments about both sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination" while following events both personal and public during 2017. "Paul Killebrew's THE BISEXUAL PURGE is a unique and wonderful poem: a documentary work that keeps twisting back on itself, a poem of identity that admits the puniness and fragility of the author's own political individuality, an Ashberyish linguistic haze that clears itself to examine honestly the 'promiscuity' of language in the service of power."--Jay Aquinas Thompson in Poetry Northwest Poetry. Essay. Histroy. LGBTQIA+ Studies.

Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge

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Flowers

Ethical Consciousness

To Literally You

Impersonal Rainbow and The Bisexual Purge