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The Curve of Things is honeyed heat and blazing ache. Kathy Kremins queers the natural world in this collection, whispering to a beloved "deeply from long needles" in "Blue Fields" or, in her stunning title poem, mapping lesbian love-making such that plants, animals, human touch, and art-making layer within every gesture: "the geography of your foot / a beagle's howl, the rabbit's route, / my breath on your cheek, red, juicy tomatoes, / the binding of a book..." Here the imagination resurrects, intimacy prays in tongues, and poems are palimpsests - holy, elemental. Too, these poems map what canyons us: waving to a father while "blowing kisses in a direction lined with absence," or in "About the Sadness," bearing witness to the torment of an impossible love. Take a breath as you crease the spine of
The Curve of Things open: what lies within is breathtaking."
– "Darla Himeles, author of 'Cleave'"
