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QuickviewBrushes With by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetrySome facts: there is ""white residue"" on a windowsill. In a novel on the brink of being written, someone walks out the door then reappears on the edge of a lake. To ""recollect."" To ""glide."" To ""wake up."" In a work that is reminiscent of Jenny Boully's The Body -- a blankness accompanied by footnotes -- Darling's Brushes with performs a narrative of sexual betrayal and peculiar [excruciating] loss with a delicate and pressing hand. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewFailure Lyric by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryKristina Marie Darling gives us a narrative in images both surreal and everyday that recur and accrete to evoke a sense of deep and irrevocable loss. It's impossible to read without feeling similarly moved. —Janet Holmes$16.00 -
QuickviewFrances the Mute / The Bright Continent (A Diptych) by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryFrances the Mute / The Bright Continent is a love story shaped by the language of absence—and haunted by the absence of language. In Kristina Marie Darling’s hands, the “small ornaments” of the quotidian are invested with a radiant significance rustling beneath the surface of words. —Tony Trigilio$16.00 -
QuickviewGhost / Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher
PoetryGHOST / LANDSCAPE reads like an intimate chat, except not the kind people have over tea. Maybe it's whiskey causing these emotional flare-ups ("They warned me about you"), these bouts of nostalgia ("You wake wondering where the antique chickens are"), these lamentations about lost love (count the number of missed phone calls throughout), these discomfiting confessions ("...I had always thought unhappiness would be easy"). The chemistry between these poets is electric; it lights up the page. —Diana Spechler$16.00 -
QuickviewPetrarchan by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryKristina Marie Darling's Petrarchan uses ideas of the fragment, the unsaid, and the unknown to gesture towards her own passionate syntax. It seeks the person in Petrarch's humanism. —Sean Singer$16.00 -
QuickviewPHARMAKON (A CASE HISTORY) by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryPHARMAKON is a rattling collection. Laced with pinching, dark detail, the tinge of gone, resonant trinkets, and a seasoned sense of loss, this book dustlessly describes the bewilderment of being, being not, and the feeling that comes with those. —Emily Toder$16.00 -
QuickviewRequited by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryThe prose poems that open Kristina Marie Darling’s Requited gradually recede, through erasure, into the quieter fragments of the “Epilogue.” The closing section deftly reframes the juxtapositions and silences that come before, making one question whether the collection’s title suggests love or retaliation. —Sandra Lim$16.00 -
QuickviewScorched Altar: Selected Poems & Stories 2007-2014 by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIt is in the very restlessness of her metaphors that Kristina Darling documents a tangible faith. Such restlessness is trustworthy and always, throughout Scorched Altar, both vital and in plain view. Here are truthful experiments. Here is a new tradition, alive in bright air. —Donald Revell$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Arctic Circle by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryThe symmetrical aspects of this narrative make for a pristine evocation of crisis and overcoming. Kristina Darling’s fable resists disintegration, challenging instead a forceful awareness. The dynamics here do not permit abjection to pulverize presence. —Brenda Iijima$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Moon and Other Inventions: Poems After Joseph Cornell by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryDarling creates a lattice of explicitly feminine apperception around the works of Joseph Cornell. The result is a haunting parascription, of a piece with Cornell's metaphysical idiom while substantially Othering any sustained encounter with his work. —G.C. Waldrep$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Sun & The Moon by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIn poems lit by an incendiary marriage, Kristina Marie Darling traces a story that begins, as stories often do, “as a small mark on the horizon.” Brave and haunted, these poems burn down to ash and winter, daring to unlock the spell of memory’s silver flashings. The small remains, like distant stars, make a moving portrait. —Mary Ann Samyn$16.00 -
QuickviewVow by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIn Kristina Marie Darling’s Vow, both text and subtext paint the fraught institution of marriage, particularly the subjectivities of the bride’s several selves. Written in candle, tale, and glass, the book “reveals, harbors, conceals” in an exciting new collection. —Carmen Gimenez Smith$16.00
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