About the Author:
Karin Randolph is an ex-painter turned writer. She is the author of EITHER SHE WAS, which was selected by David Shapiro for the 2007 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the 2007 National Poetry Series.
Review:
I love this book of poems, because it reminds of the early perfections of an artist of pastels. The softest music was loved by John Cage, and this book could be one of the late homages to that genius of toy music. Like a wind chime, something that seems Romantic and kitsch becomes a language, though it seems random. It is always present tense as an empiricist casting a shadow and casting for shadows. We need politics and wildness today, and here we find a quiet resistance and no shame. --David Shapiro
With the speed and daring of a champion Indy driver, Karin Randolph races around the bumps and curves of Language with courage and invention. Like such poets as Bernadette Meyer, Alice Notley and Anne Waldman, Randolph simply re-invents language as she bounces along, and it's up to us, her passenger/readers, to hold on and enjoy the ride. --Bill Kushner
Randolph's prose poems archive our increasingly bizarre times: war, tourism, geometry, hauntings, far memory, spelunking, Greek mythology, Westphalian art, dogs, fashion and death. In one poem she encapsulates her own process: I don't mean to be coy or auxiliary but it tickles, clouds wobble, I get it down on colored paper. Read her and wonder. --Eva Salzman
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