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Moordener Kill
by Paul Genega
$13.99, paper
978-1-64662-153-8
2020
In the original Dutch, moordener is murderer and kill is creek. In Paul Genega’s newest collection of poems, we follow these dark waters through a diverse series of landscapes – real and imaginary, past and present, personal and political – joined in the journey by a fascinating mix of familiar characters from the Bible, pop culture and the visual arts, among them James McNeill Whistler, Dorothy Kilgallen, Simon of Cyrene, and Ronnie Spector. Conjuring “nests of stinging terrors / sequestered in clenched fists,” these are poems for our precarious times, poems which believe we must look back to move forward – not for the sake of easy nostalgia, but to tell our stories truthfully: “manifest destiny, memoir, grand guignol.”
Paul Genega is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, most recently Sculling on the Lethe, from Salmon Poetry in 2018. Among his many awards are the “Discovery” Prize (The Nation), the Lucille Medwick Award (New York Quarterly), the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards (Paterson Literary Review) and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is Professor Emeritus at Bloomfield College, New Jersey, where he founded the creative writing program and served as chair of Humanities. He is also editor of Three Mile Harbor Press (www.3mileharborpress.com) which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2019. Visit him at www.paulgenega.com.
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