Tag: Kate Kimball
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Review: Kate Kimball on Drawing Water by Eva Heisler
Perhaps one of the most difficult processes to demonstrate, investigate, interrogate, mimic, and exemplify in poetry is that of the creation of a poem itself, and yet, in Drawing Water, that is precisely what writer Eva Heisler sets out to do. But, this isn’t the typical meta-writing that many readers may be familiar with and…
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Colony Collapse, by J.A. Tyler
“I started the search for my brother by building a house,” the narrator begins in J.A. Tyler’s book of prose, Colony Collapse. And, though the narrator starts his search with building, he also burns, demolishes, and rebuilds. It is through these actions that the reader is able to enter the strange, dreamlike, and disembodied world…
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Whatever Don’t Drown Will Always Rise, by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
“Why are we training Cerb to fight?” “Because he needs to rediscover his nature.” “What’s his nature?” Cerb ripped open the dummy’s head. “This,” dad said, pointing. I didn’t get it. I’d seen Cerb eat his own shit once. “Like the wolf. Or, like, whatever came before the wolf even.” Thus begins the strange world…
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The Saddest Place on Earth, by Kathryn Mockler
“Buddha signed up for Weight / Watchers after his doctor said / he was borderline diabetic,” Kathryn Mockler writes, only to continue with Buddha’s thoughts of wondering “if he could / get in trouble at Weight / Watchers […] if he / could get kicked out.” This illustrates the absurd world that Mockler investigates in…
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Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, by Laura Read
What if the only compass you had to the past was a series of fragmented images of home? What shape would these images take? What sound? After assembling what you could, how would you determine a beginning, middle, or end? And later, after stepping back, what would be real and what would be imagined? What…
Heavy Feather Review 