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Based
on her experiences in New Delhi, India, The Kimnama is a "masala"
of adventure, history, and street culture. The
Kimnama is available for $12 from VRZHU
Press. "Good
poems love to travel. Conceive a new passage to India, immersion
in its tints, sounds, and scents. Sight the Buddha’s very
own neighborhood or move in rivers of traffic where time stops.
Now for the price of lunch, The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press)
by Kim Roberts transports us swiftly to India where...gentle
lines give us a sense of dream places that wake us to marvels.
Lapidary verses vary with brisk evocation of streets, shops,
and voices. Roberts devotes her lean book to vast India not
only from her vantage point as traveler but from the eyes, ears,
and tongues of Indians; their timeless spirit shines despite
imperial edicts or raids by sacred cows." "In
the lines of this book-length poem, Kim Roberts distills for
us the essence of India. Braiding past and present with sensual
detail, she summons up the contrasts—houses on a narrow
dirt lane sharing the wall of Muhammadpur's tomb, men in dhotis
squatting 'like giant grasshoppers' near 'a chandelier vendor/his
wares hanging from a tree//so the cut glass shimmered/where
the sun/filtered through the dusty leaves,' her observations
of the outer world complemented by inner realizations arrived
at organically." "...this
work makes the reader viscerally smell, hear, touch and see
the streets, mosques, gods, vehicles, shopping malls and slums
of New Delhi." |
 THE WISHBONE GALAXY Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1994 Out of Print Read sample poems
"This
uncommonly original and spirited book of poems is as bountiful
as the universe itself. It is divided into three diverse sections,
each of which bristles with a kind of glorious energy...There
is a delightfully subversive list quality to the poems "Imagine
This" and "Darwin in Reverse," like layers being
delicately but deliberately peeled away. The mother in "Mother"
is a female horseshoe crab and a sharp metaphor at that. While
the daughter in "Daughter" comes face to face with
the real father who failed her and the dream father she created
on the page...All in all, this book is an astronomical debut.
Next time you look up at the stars, the one shining brightest
might be a poet named Kim Roberts." "The
Wishbone Galaxy is one of the best first books in my lifetime.
I admire these poems' tenacious tactile qualities, their skillfully
concealed craft, their density and intensity. Moving, passionate,
insightful, these wonderful evocations of Eros should be appreciated
by anyone interested — and who isn’t — in “the
pressure of one body against another. These brilliant poems
offer a constellation of pleasures." |
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KIMNAMA
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POETRY QUARTERLY |
 DELAWARE POETRY REVIEW Co-edited with: Michael Blaine, John Elsberg, Dennis Forney, H.A. Maxon, & Richard Peabody. July 2007 - Present |
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HIGHWAY: BEYOND PAVEMENT |
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