Overview

As her title implies, Kate Deimling offers us meditations formal and informal on the vicissitudes of time. More specifically, how best to manage its ravages and double-crossings. Hint: it helps if you don't sit still in one time zone. Enter Lot's wife. Enter a figure skater after she crashes. Enter the three-legged dog that romps with the best, and the Roman emperor who would rather grow cabbages than rule Rome again. The collection opens and opens, leaving room for Deimling's own stories and ours. And what do you do when a friend jumps from a dorm window but only breaks his leg? You take scones to the hospital and talk about the big snow. -Lance Larsen, former Poet Laureate of Utah

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""This book is an arm around our shoulders-solace and encouragement on our brief and endless travels through the present."" -Jed Myers, author of Learning to Hold ""In this taut debut collection of poetry laced with the formalism of sonnets and ghazals, Kate Deimling's translator-trained ear is in evidence in the rhythms and rhymes infusing her words."" -Nancy Naomi Carlson, author of Piano in the Dark ""A thoughtful collection that rewards a reader's attention."" -Susanna Lang, author of Like This

Author Information

Kate Deimling is a poet and translator. Her poems have appeared in Kestrel, Passager, Presence, Sheila-Na-Gig, SLANT, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere, and she is co-editor of Bracken magazine. She holds a PhD in French literature from Columbia University and has translated several books from French, including a history of color charts and an eighteenth-century novel. A native New Orleanian and longtime Brooklynite, Kate enjoys seeing nature in the city and spending time with her dog.

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