Donna Kuhn's New Book:"typical girl"

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Fine Tooth Press of Connecticut is pleased to announce the release of Donna Kuhn's first full-length poetry collection "typical girl." The book is 75pages with a color cover designed by the publisher, JJ Sargeant. http://www.finetoothpress.com/ Donna Kuhn is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry. She has published over 400 poems in print and online journals and anthologies including malleable jungle, aught, big bridge,blackbox, generator press, over the transom, unlikely stories, argotist online, xstream, muse apprentice guild, juxta, 5-trope, moria, your black eye, lost and found times, starfish, ambit, fusebox. Her visual art and visual poetry have been widely exhibited and published and her experimental poetry/dance videos have been shown on cable access channels, online and at art galleries and film festivals. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. Blurbs: Birds, moons, words, water, skies: with these basic elements Donna Kuhn creates a voice swirling down a hypnotizing stream of thought, thought addressed to "u", which could well be the "I" of these poems.  Or of this single long poem which seems to wrap a conscious presence in a veil of motion, as if to hide something, but revealing all.  Outside a "geometric beauty salon" she is "shaving inside birds"; a "typical girl" dreaming from the outside in.  A beautiful and mesmerizing book. John M. Bennett, editor of Lost and Found Times How many is she? This frenzied poet is all weathers and landscapes and animal joy. With blinding twists and broken tongue, with the fragments of her life, mind and body in constant motion, Kuhn revels (and reveals) in these songs an utterly contemporary ancient theater. This is alchemy in burlesque Eucharist. “u cannot hold me down when i am a dancing mood bird”. The old stories tell how the (female) monster of Chaos was destroyed by the (male) hero of order. Obviously someone lied. Kuhn restores to us this blessed chaos. Not incoherence or obscurity, but that raw, sweet chaos that can realign your neurons to their natural state. You do not read this poetry so much as it happens to you. Rave on! Typical girl? Oh yes, in a poet’s paradise. Forget the infotainment and intelligentsia. This is the real world made music.  Jake Berry, author of Brambu Drezi and Species of Abandoned Light From the book: SHAVING CHINA'S HEART your charcoal wife, i have hid the sea u have hid birds, words the rain u nagasaki down birds i have hid the rain with its eyelid under his deadly awning like shaving chinas heart go paint a radiation receptionist wolves reach my radioactive eggs home with an executive gator snow inside my branch i get these blocks with anyones war horses leave the moon divorced four to five blocks, lady the girls dont care no stars feel an exit a man says go feel a cartoon feel a cartoon father exit i ask how she opens hands Please visit her blog to see her other books and chapbooks, reviews, interviews,poetry and art.  http://digitalaardvarks.blogspot.com Please see her mac homepage for more information,art, slideshows, video and audio poetry and links to other sites. http://homepage.mac.com/digitalaardvarks/ You can order "typical girl" here:http://www.finetoothpress.com/ The book is $11.99.