My Psychic: Poems

By James Kimbrell and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

"Kimbrell helps us see into the mysteries and losses that haunt our world--primal, incessant, hidden, and true as 'fog rising from our wordless mouths.'"--David Baker My Psychic is a book about the soul--what it might be, under what circumstances it might show itself to the rest of us curious, bewildered living. The center sequence of poems elegizing his mother's death movingly establishes an unbroken continuity between the living and the dead. James Kimbrell is the author of The Gatehouse Heaven and co-translator of Three Poets of Modern Korea . He is currently the director of the creative writing program at Florida State University.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932511253
• ISBN13: 9781932511253
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A True Fan

Absolutely LOVED it and then I heard a reading that he did and explained the background a little more. Loved it even more. Takes me back to the high school days in rural Mississippi when times were easy and life was good.