Explore the depths of human experience through lyrical verse.Martha Kalin's How to Hold a Flying River invites readers on a journey through shadow and light, circling the turbulence of being human. These poems stretch sensitive drumskins over frames of close observation, resonant understatement, and silences rich with insight, exploring themes of memory, loss, and human connection.
Experience the soothing qualities of beauty within reach, even in trying situations. This collection is an exhortation for heaven to rest your head on my knees and an invitation to enter a space where the ineffable dwells. Perfect for readers seeking solace and connection through poetry.
"Implicit in this irresistible title,How to Hold a Flying River, is a poetry of the ineffable and ephemeral, its metaphor striving toward the light and shadow of all we cannot hold..." —Mark Irwin, author ofAmerican Urn: Selected Poems (1987-2014)
"The haunting beauty of Martha Kalin’s poems rest in things seen and not seen, objects and people and emotions resting in the shadows. [...] How to Hold a Flying Riveris a gorgeous, complex book, one I’ll be thinking about for a long time." —Michael Henry, author ofNo Stranger Than My OwnandActive Gods
"These poems soar with transcendent mystery, the title’s glimpse of her impossible paradoxes. Kalin is a poet of unparalleled brilliance." —Joy Roulier Sawyer, author ofLifeguardsandTongues of Men and Angels
Martha Kalinis the 2019 winning recipient of the Terry J. Cox Poetry Award and author of the chapbook,Afterlife and Mango. She holds degrees from Brandeis University and the University of Michigan, where she received a Major Hopwood Award for Poetry. In addition to writing, she has spent much of her professional life working to improve servicesl3¹
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