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.
