Kintsukuroi by Whitnee Thorp
$14.99
Whitnee Thorp taps the “floating colors” of memory to offer up poems that are historically-situated, transnational, matrilineal, and political. Her chapbook Kintsukuori contains no “fragile figurines,” but poems that get the “heartbeat / thumping” before settling like “confetti / on / lashes”. Thorp’s poetic voice is at turns elegiac and ironic, curious and knowing. Kintsukuori is a gift.
–Cheryl R. Hopson, PhD -Author of Black Notes
Whitnee Thorp does not flinch in the face of the brokenness that’s all around us. Aging, PTSD, divorce, forced abortions, teen pregnancy, car accidents caused by drinking and driving — all of these appear in the poems. But the poems are pure gold, full of “tall-stemmed sunflowers / always watching, with hundreds / of black-speckled eyes” and “bodies on fire / extinguished only by each other”. After reading Kintsukuori, you’ll know that the world is more broken than you’ve ever realized — and more beautiful than you’ve ever imagined.
–Tom C. Hunley, author of PLUNK and THE STATE THAT SPRINGFIELD IS IN
Whitnee Thorp‘s voice is down home electric. At all times intimate & universal, she spends time in small town Kentucky, and on bus stops in Zhangjiajie. These poems travel. Kintsukuori is a collection of repair & rejoice. Her images catapult off the page – they break their teeth on beer bottles, samba, heal, salvage, and pray – they root us deep into what it means to be a woman. Beautiful, jarring & alive, hers is a voice worth revisiting, writing down & remembering.
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Kintsukuroi
by Whitnee Thorp
$14.99, paper
978-1-63534-277-2
2017
Whitnee Thorp is from Lexington, KY but currently lives in Box Elder, SD where she teaches on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at Oglala Lakota College. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University. Some of her publications include ‘PMS Poemmemoirstory’, ‘Veils, Halos, and Shackles’, ‘Pasque Petals’, ‘Poets Opposing Evil Trump’, and Tom Hunley’s ‘Poetry Gymnasium’. She has attended the Disquiet International Writing Residency in Lisbon, Portugal, Wellstone Writing Residency, KY Governor’s School for the Arts, among other writing conferences and workshops. She recently won the South Dakota Poetry Society’s annual chapbook contest with her chapbook, ‘Cicurate’. When Whitnee isn’t writing you can find her binge watching Netflix shows, drinking a Mountain Dew, or eating some Hot Cheetos.
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