Poetry, American

Borders My Bent Toward

Name: Borders My Bent Toward
Author: George Kalamaras
ISBN: 9781886350625

by George Kalamaras

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Product Description Poetry. In this mystical, almost mythic collection of poems, George Kalamaras brings his readers into a world of images and sound. His poems are sometimes dense, sometimes light, but always delightful. "George Kalamaras's poems turn the poetic process upside down. The result is a poetry that hurtles the reader over the edges of perception and experience. His achievement becomes text as vision, and his visionary completion arrive through the surprise of a magical language"- Ray Gonzalez. "All that month it was harder than it seemed./Couldn't taste enough to talk my vowels/apart, separately. Couldn't love enough/my ache to tone, be pure, become" -- from "Borders My Bent Towards." About the Author George Kalamaras is Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he has taught since 1990. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including five chapbooks. His recent titles include Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2008), EVEN THE JAVA SPARROWS CALL YOUR HAIR (Quale Press, 2004), BORDERS MY BENT TOWARD (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), and THE RECUMBENT GALAXY (C&R Press, 2010), co-authored with Alvaro Cardona-Hine.