Crybaby Bridge: Poems

Kathy Goodkin

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In poem after poem, the pages of Crybaby Bridge present a series of tiny revelations, like in "Spontaneous Generation" "I got alive / the same as you: / salt made // a small
reckoning." It's all so simple, so right there--but poet Kathy Goodkin's sweeping floodlights allow us to see it. In this book, Goodkin observes an ordinary world with its small tragedies and workaday beauties--forests and fields that give way to housing developments, balloons blooming outside a party store, cars winched from rivers--and she gives it to readers straight. Goodkin's several poems titled "Sleep Paralysis" offer a helpful lens for understanding the pictures each poem presents. When you can't look away, you get a chance to take it all in, the reservoir, the larkspur, the slow and insistent layered growth of a city.

Book Details

Publisher: Moon City Press
Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2019
Pages: NA
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.40in - 0.30in - 0.25lb
EAN: 9780913785430

About the Author

Kathy Goodkin is an editor for feminist publisher Gazing Grain Press, a manuscript consultant for the North Carolina Writers' Network, and an online teaching artist for the Loft. Her chapbook, Sleep Paralysis, was published by dancing girl press in 2017. Her work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Field, Fourteen Hills, RHINO, Redivider, The Volta, and elsewhere.

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Literary press housed in the English Department at Missouri State University. Sponsors the Moon City Poetry Award and the Moon City Short Fiction Award.

Kathy Goodkin will be reading from Crybaby Bridge for the Live Stream Poetrio: reading series hosted virtually by Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe this afternoon at 3PM EST! RSVP here to attend (FREE) and receive an email with the link to watch the reading: https://t.co/iA92Ly8716

Moon City Review is housed in the English Department of Missouri State University and publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and graphic narrative.

We are especially sad for our authors whose books were supposed to have their first AWP this year: Phong Nguyen for Roundabout, Kathy Goodkin for Crybaby Bridge: Poems by Kathy Goodkin, and Pablo Piñero Stillmann for Our Brains and the Brains of Miniature Sharks. (2/3)

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Moon City Press

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Literary press housed in the English Department at Missouri State University. Sponsors the Moon City Poetry Award and the Moon City Short Fiction Award.

Moon City Review is housed in the English Department of Missouri State University and publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and graphic narrative.

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