Cargo

By Kristin Kelly

Poetry. CARGO by Kristin Kelly is the winner of the 10th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. This is Kelly's first book of poetry and was chosen by contest judge Diann Blakely. Mark Levine had this to say about CARGO: "'It's just not natural,' observes the speaker of one of Kristin Kelly's poems, in a tone of supercharged deadpan that is one of the dozens of frequencies this work inhabits. I have rarely read a book that expresses the feeling of being unnatural with such disquieting precision. Some unnamed crisis has befallen Kelly's speaker, leaving her broken off from herself, yet compelled to bear her salvaged remnants through these poems. In Kelly's vision, the sun is a stripped-bare rock, the human body 'a weight in the room,' the soul an inchoate cargo. Her enforced detachment yields a clarity of encounter, an exactness of phrase, an extraordinary formal anxiety, and a capacity for empathetic transport that feels, to this reader, like an equivalence of grace. This is a beautiful book, brilliant and heartbreaking, that has somehow discovered within postmodern style a way to speak with utter genuineness of matters of life and death."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932418385
• ISBN13: 9781932418385
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Elixir Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.