Poetry. "In the ribbons the light makes between night and the window. Objects offer only their parts, only an angle of their face. A cactus seen from a bedroom appears dense as an animal, a hot black being crouched outside on the gravel. The scent of another girl's dresses and her lace church gloves on the white formica dresser strangely suburban in the this adobe house, in this teeming Sonoran desert"--from Saline. "Again and again, a mindful image is cut out of the background of the world and then placed over another context, while the hollow shape left in the background is filled in by an image from a new context... In this regard, thoughts steals back and forth between objects and words, revealing a world of firefly details that comes close to descriptive hallucination"--Charles Borkhuis.

Saline

Literature & Fiction

Lyons, Kimberly

Poetry

Instance Press

<p>Poetry. Robert Kelly says of Kimberly Lyon's work, "She's one of the rare poets whom you somehow trust, trust that their next move will be even more interesting.... Urbane, witty, thingly, her world is in the grip of language."</p>

Rouge

Poetry. "Kimberly Lyons wants to 'stay with the poem in this uncomfortable singular place / Where the flies and moths co-exist.' It is hard to listen when 'The poems says: / You can't have any lobster, you stupid, hungry poet.' But that is exactly what the poet does. Instead of shutting the world out, she follows the sounds wherever they take her. 'I abide / one who abets / a lady's maid.' It makes for an intricate music, a teasing out of possibilities. These are the poet's 'restorative analects.' This is a book to read again and again."—John Yau"Kimberly Lyons cracks open the primordial egg from which all creation originates. What issues from it: 'glossy first milk / of time,' an 'aromatic hem,' 'the discharging thread,' 'a / kind of channel / a crystal / edge of the knife,' 'a stich of blue / for heating flame.' Lyons's absolutely magical reckoning with the world is as generative and hallucinatory as it is generous and honest. Thus THE PRACTICE OF RESIDUE pours out from its mythic eggshell the lost traces of amniotic fluid that every reader needs if she is to realize and be realized: divination becomes 'a binding condensation.' The only possible response to this poetry is gratitude and love."—Elizabeth Robinson

The Practice of Residue

Subpress

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The Practice of Residue