Human Interest

By Kim Bridgford

Kim Bridgford's latest collection offers both her customary technical pleasures and a new, half-astonished rage. Filled with kidnapped girls and off-kilter animals ("it is all about what's rearranged"), bookended by revisions of Facebook and clich?s, Human Interest demands that we re-think poetic forms as more than heritage, challenge, or trap: they are Bridgford's own strong bones stood up hard against a seriously skewed world. -Terri Witek All the pleasures you expect from a new book by Kim Bridgford are here: a spirited sense of the world's absurdity; formal mastery so complete it's almost casual; heart. What Human Interest adds to the canon is a sense of crisis. Tune in for priceless satires like "The Love Song of the Middle-Aged Academic"-"till administrators wake us, and we drown"-but linger over "Unfriend," "Settling," and many other humane meditations on our inhumanity to each other. "Now shatter it," Bridgford finally urges, because this collection, for all its wit and brio, crescendos in a moving call to change. -Lesley Wheeler Previous Praise for Kim Bridgford:Stately and assured, Kim Bridgford triumphs over private, public, mythic and literary bullies . . . shining a searchlight on the world of threats . . . . Are these the subjects of poetry? You bet they are, especially in Bridgford's valiant hands. -Molly Peacock

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692629866
• ISBN13: 9780692629864
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: White Violet Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"