Beautiful in the Mouth (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934414336 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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In his foreword he writes, "I was immediately struck by the boldness of imagination, the strange cadences, and wild music of these poems. Kuipers pins moments onto the page with the care of an etymologist collecting rare specimens. Thomas Lux selected this debut collection as winner of BOA’s A. The poems move easily between landscapes, inhabiting the American west, Paris, and New York City with equal ease and yet, they never exploit sympathies of locale for their power. Poulin, Jr., Poetry Prize. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she divides her time between Stanford and Missoula, Montana.From Devils Lake Journal:Keetje Kuipers’ Beautiful in the Mouth is at once lovely, frank, and haunting. Her poems are at once visceral and cosmic, a wave as well as a particle.””. Instead, they rely on nothing but the speaker’s own candor, who is able to speak through such disparate poems as Bondage Play as Substitue for Prayer” alongside Waltz of the Midnight Miscarriage,” Reading Sappho in a Win
I hope you do too.” -American Microreviews and Interviews. Perhaps it is because Kuipers as a poet is much like myself in her foci of intimate affairs and broad natural landscapes, or perhaps it is because she is so skillful in crafting poems that tell stories or minister to our emotions honestly and she can do so with an impressive economy of words. "The poems in Beautiful in the Mouth mostly identify themselves within a poetic register that is more tangible, emotionally sincere, linguistically straightforward and sensuou
"Beauty in the Mind" according to BRB. Keetje Kuipers writes lovely, but often jarring, plain language poetry about the West, the East and parts in between. And she writes, intimately, about herself. The result is a very subtle but immediate verse. I want to read more!. Sara Blanco said Interesting, great first effort. I was lucky enough to hear Kuipers read from Beautiful in the Mouth a few weeks ago, which only enhanced the effectiveness of her poems.In Beautiful in the Mouth, Kuipers uses unexpected and compelling language to examine the tensions between the different places she has lived as well as to explore the body.. "A stunning must-read" according to Elissa E. Rust. I have always loved contemporary poetry, but this is the first time I've read an entire collection of poems cover to cover--chronologically, first page to last--in one long wonderful night.Beautiful in the Mouth left me breathless, wanting more, sad when I'd reached the end.Kuipers is most assuredly a poet to watch. This is not a book I can imagine anyone would regret taking the plunge and purchasing!