Tuft Contributor(s): Minkus, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1927040590 ISBN-13: 9781927040591 Publisher: Book*hug Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2013376739 |
Series: Book Thug Tradebooks |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.7" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Tuft: A bunch (natural or artificial) of small things, usually soft and flexible, 1/2fixed or attached at the base. OED With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we observe the green elite and iceplants bloom in the monotony of paved paths. We tangle and climb into language and are swept into the lives of the animals that haunt the shores of our city's waterways. This is a world where worker, lover, animal and poet unite. Minkus brings Venus and Satan into one sentence and in doing so unleashes the bitter-broken-fallen of our world. This is a gathering that calls out to the reader to pay attention and look closely. Tuft reminds us that without words our bodies would not exist and that only time makes us secret. We are all attached to something. Minkus forms impossible compounds to do just what the best poetry must: express the inexpressible - Stephen Collis, The Globe and Mail Her utterly original voice is unlike any other in poetry. - Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail |
Contributor Bio(s): Minkus, Kim: - Kim Minkus is the author of 9 Freight (2007), Thresh (2009) and TUFT (2013). She has had reviews, poetry and fiction published in The Capilano Review, FRONT Magazine, West Coast Line, The Poetic Front, and Jacket. Kim is currently a Creative Writing instructor at Capilano University and a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University. |