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REVIEWS
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WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT KIM'S
LATEST COLLECTION
"Psychologically astute and playfully resolute at evoking
the irrevocable desire for love, attraction, seduction and
yes, companionship, What She Wants belongs on every
bookshelf: not just for poetry lovers. But the poetry is
there, singing its echoing delight through the lines, like
desire itself, and enticing, resolving, and picturing the
myriad ways we are compelled by desire and all its fruits.”
—John Evans, Co-Owner Diesel, a Bookstore
"Desires, both feral and mundane, are slung across these
pages in a crescendo of sexual longing and urgent vitality."
—Amanda Youngman, Manager, Barnes & Noble at The
Grove
"A fantastic book!”
—Suzy Takacs, owner of The Book Cellar Bookstore in
Chicago, Illinois
"From whispered secrets to consuming obsessions, these poems
unveil the complexities of love, longing, and the urgency
that prods us to pursue the objects of one's desire."
—Luisa Smith, Buying Director, Book Passage
Bookstore
"I love this collection!”
—Dan Graham, Book Soup Bookstore
"Captures the timeless art of storytelling through verse
with raw and unfiltered emotions, lyrical language and vivid
imagery. With every turn of the page, readers will find
themselves drawn deeper into a world where words hold the
power to inspire, delight and transform."
—Julie Slavinsky, Director of Events, Warwick’s
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT
"What She Wants: Poems on
Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria"
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WHAT
THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT KIM'S WRITING
“A kind of miracle. . . wild with poetry’s particular fever . . . but, but,
sometimes—tempered by a rich inner life, fed by wisdom and knowledge one
gets walking up and down upon the earth with all of one’s senses fully alert. .
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and this fever can turn into art, as it has, in poem after poem.”
—Thomas Lux
“Bold and sexy and smart.”
—Stephen Dunn
“Kim Dower’s poems
speak not of the highs and lows, but about the grey space between tragedy and
tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and perseverance – that space where the
soul and the truest self live.”
—Richard
Blanco
“Sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combines humor and heartache.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Unexpected and sublime.”
—O Magazine
“A moving blend of sexual experimentation and loss.”
—Library Journal
“More Billy Collins than John Ashbery and has some of the same sharp Southern
California perspective as Joan Didion, driving down the freeway in The White
Album.”
—Oregonian
“Exquisitely crafted but the tool marks are invisible on the printed page, and
each
poem reads like an intimate conversation with the poet herself—bright and lucid,
funny and sharp, and always full of life.”
—Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal
“A dark chocolate fever dream of love, of mothers. Kim Dower dares you into
the dark. You may find yourself lurking there.”
—Erica Jong
“Charming and compelling, accessible and profound.”
—Lisa See
“Jazzy, sassy, sexy—poems that move fast, are full of surprise and tweak the
heartstrings like Arkhipovsky tweaks the balalaika.”
—Stephen Dobyns
“Witty, sexy, irreverent, touching, and disarmingly candid. Attuned to life’s
quirky
and endearing strangeness, [Kim’s] poems are, you guessed it, fun.”
—Charles Harper Webb
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