House of Women by Kristin Kovacic (NWVS, #119)

$14.49

 

Kristin Kovacic knows a few things about life, and she can write.  In her house, “every motion, even collapse, has its own/grace.”  She traces the tender and terrible artifacts of domesticity and amplifies the idioms of our most complex affections—man and woman, mother and child, the living and their dead.  She also peers over the backyard fence, testing the limits of empathy.  The work of a grown up, her poems are patiently crafted, truthful, wise, and a deep pleasure to read.  I can’t remember when I last found such compelling pleasure in a new collection of poems!

–Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author Poetry in America 

Rating: ***** [5 of 5 STARS!]

 

Kristin Kovacic’s poems are wonderfully, unapologetically “domestic, ” which opens the whole world to her curious gaze.  She understands that all feeling begins at home (or sometimes nearby, in nature), where children — and sometimes husbands — are warmed by maternal tenderness, protected from harm by facing it accompanied.  These are complex, beautifully wrought poems by a wise, candid woman whose honesty is both bruising and comforting.

–Rosellen Brown

 

Categories: ,

Description

House of Women

by Kristin Kovacic  (New Women’s Voices Series, No. 119)

$14.49, paper

House of Women is where the inner lives of the women you love dwell. Kristin Kovacic‘s poems let you peer inside to honest female experiences in its many forms–lover, mother, daughter, artist, teacher, wife. New Women’s Voices Series, No. 119

Kristin Kovacic has published widely and well, if quietly, over many years. Her clear and elegantly crafted work has garnered a Pushcart (for her essay “A Short History of My Breath,” about the difficult surgery her son Ramsey had when he was a child), and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, among other prizes. In 2002 the University of Iowa Press published birth, a literary companion, published by the University of Iowa Press, an anthology of poems, stories, and essays about parenthood Kovacic coedited with Lynne Barrett. But it’s only been recently, after she raised a family and taught for many years, that collections of her own work have appeared. In 2016 Kovacic’s poetry chapbook, House of Women, was published by Finishing Line Press, and in 2018 her collection of essays, History of My Breath, was published by Red Mountain Press. Last October I had breakfast with Kovacic to talk about her essays and the hard work of writing.

 

 

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “House of Women by Kristin Kovacic (NWVS, #119)”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related products