l’appel du vide by Kym Cunningham

“Kym Cunningham‘s poems are bold, sometimes brash, but beautifully articulate the power of poetry to express the hard edges that life throws at us. Cunningham’s poems play with language in ways that move us to see and feel beyond the surface and to look right into the void of the possible. A daring and soulful collection.”

–Persis Karim, Poet, Editor and Professor of Creative Writing, San Jose State University

“Kym Cunningham’s first chapbook is an astringent. With each poem she makes us feel the slap of her language as we take a flying leap, as it were, into the void of her well-churned syntax. Her poems take us to where love is a condition, where we are made to smell spoiled memories and feel the pulse of unrefined anger, where hope can be seen as a threat. And where stabbed by her imagery we are excited to be alive.”

–Alan Soldofsky, author of In the Buddha Factory and Director of Creative Writing, San Jose State University