Description: Kairos by Libby Maxey Kairos speaks both to the passage of time and to the timelessness of being. These luminous sonnets, rooted in nature and blooming with music, won the Finishing Line Press New Womens Voices prize. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Kairos, Libby Maxeys first poetry collection, speaks both to the passage of time and to the timelessness of being. The epistolary quality of the sonnet form is front and center, insisting on connection, even as the poems suggest that the mysteries of the past have nothing on the mysteries of our personal present and the people we love. Kairos makes family out of history, gleaning a rich and mythic past from literature and place to structure, interpret, and communicate the present. Whether capturing the explosive intimacy of parenthood or the shortcomings of faith, Maxeys verses order chaos with metaphor. Kairos takes us from New England to the Washington coast to Japan, gathering in what breaks apart. Rooted in the natural world and blooming with music, these luminous poems have won the Poets Seat Poetry Contest, the Robert P. Collén Poetry Contest, and the New Womens Voices prize from Finishing Line Press. Author Biography Libby Maxey has a BA in English from Whitman College and an MA in medieval studies from Cornell University. She is a senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama, where she has been a part of the Literary Reflections department since 2012, and she reviews poetry for The Mom Egg Review and Solstice. Her own poems have appeared in Kestrel, Pinyon, Emrys, Crannóg Magazine and elsewhere. Her nonliterary activities include singing classical repertoire and mothering two sons. She lives with her family in Western Massachusetts. Review Come. Open these wintry pages and slip on "musics warmest coat." Read these tidy sonnets, wrapped with precision, and ruminate on ways the senses speak to intimacy, mortality, and geography. With skill and grace, Libby Maxey crafts a version of our world where "leaves are bickering relics in the street" and "each gliss / of swithering breeze might have been prophecy." This award-winning collection is a gift of sound and contemplation. We need these enduring words in this ageless form. Kairos is, after all, perfect timing.Christine Stewart-Nuñez, author of Untrussed (University of New Mexico Press) and Bluewords Greening (Terrapin Books) In her collection of sonnets, Libby Maxey often illuminates spaces that are secluded, abandoned, or otherwise unsung. The formal poetic landscapes she has carefully designed achieve a striking blend of constraint and vibrancy. As she writes in one piece, "I sing by numbers, measured breath, each note / A contoured shape." These verses surprise and shimmer with gorgeous vocabulary, each a well-crafted gem that resists the formulaic. The poet alludes to Dickinson and contemplates classical subjects such as Penelope as adeptly as she considers concrete and cows, snowplows and sulfur, fieldstone and fair food. Whether mundane or celestial, Maxeys lines are always smart and beautiful. Concerned with the passage of time--upon the natural world, upon the domestic terrain of marriage and children, upon the muse--these sonnets celebrate more than they mourn. The poems in Kairos take a stand for continuity and for paying attention; each a short song of harnessed meter and rhyme, "How quick they bloom / And spark."Rebecca Hart Olander, editor/director of Perugia Press Libby Maxeys poems are antiphons of thought/emotion and design/mysticism in perfect accord. Few poets these days are brave enough to yoke their talent to form. Libby does this exquisitely; she invites the words themselves to do half the work, enhancing and elevating the meaning of chosen places, relationships, situations. She asks in the first poem, "Do you know all my patterns and designs? / Or how I titivate the syntax of / The moment with an heirloom comb?" Libbys subjects are often homely, diurnal and immediate, passionately her own, yet resonant. Her epistle, "Pas de Deux," inquires, "Do you not find your name is more your own / When in my hand?" Neither rhyme nor meter is ever forced in these pages. Rather, the reader is affirmed by the rightness of poetic phrasing, verbal inspiration. Libbys formalism includes metaphors of subtle brilliance, and through the breadth and daring of her vocabulary, we celebrate the lost gods of our language. The variety--and cohesion--of these poems create a true kairos, an opportune moment in the span of poetry.Joanne Clarkson, author of The Fates (Bright Hill Press) Details ISBN1635349621 Author Libby Maxey Short Title Kairos Language English Year 2019 ISBN-10 1635349621 ISBN-13 9781635349627 Format Hardcover Pages 40 Publisher Finishing Line Press Series New Womens Voices Publication Date 2019-06-16 Imprint Finishing Line Press Subtitle Winner of the 2018 New Womens Voices Series Series Number 148 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159555992;
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