In her visionary debut collection, Calilfornia poet Kimberly Kralowec explores the intimacy of living in close relationship with extremes of beauty and distress in relation to both the human and non-human creatures around us. Friendship and love play central roles, always in the presence of nature close at hand and observed in remarkable language. Most of all the bold poetic inventiveness and freedom of these poems will carry the reader into unexpected realms. Always carefully observed, always alert to the nuances of language: these poems will carry the reader away.

Kimberly Kralowec is the author of a chapbook of love poems, We retreat into the stillness of our own bones (Tolsun Books, 2022). A California native, she holds an English degree from Pomona College and lives in San Francisco, where she is a practicing lawyer. Find her at anapoetics.

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"https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2023/06/q-with-kimberly-kralowec.html" — Deborah Kalb, blogspot