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BOOKS - SLICE OF MOON


O Magazine - December 2013 issue
for the Poetic Soul ...
“Unexpected and sublime.”
SLICE OF MOON recommended in the December, 2013 issue of O Magazine
Poetry set in the dressing room of Loehmann’s or inspired by a school cafeteria menu: unexpected and sublime.
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Kim Dower’s first collection, Air Kissing on Mars was published by Red Hen Press in 2010 and appeared on the Poetry Foundation’s Contemporary Best Sellers list. The Los Angeles Times described it as, “sensual and evocative lyrical snapshots of life’s bittersweet moments, seamlessly combining humor and heartache.”  In her second collection, Slice of Moon, Kim Dower retains her whimsical style while reaching deeper inside what it means to be human -- writing of love, longing, motherhood, vulnerability, death -- with the same humor and accessibility of her earlier work, but with greater lyrical intensity, irony, poignancy. The collection is a rainbow rope of entwined emotional fibers, each one a different expression: funny, sad, angry, loving, strong, fearful, sexy, and Kim Dower weaves these colors beautifully to create Slice of Moon, a book that resonates with honesty and the complexities of life.

Losing ones mother in Bloomingdales, the pleasures of corned beef, the power of bottled water, fear of freeways, hot springs, boob jobs, secrets in hotel rooms, dolphins sleeping with one eye open, wolves in garter belts, the strange lights next door, the people in the health food store who don’t look healthy; Slice of Moon is simultaneously funny and profound, universal and personal, and examines a life well-lived. Drenched in vivid imagery, sparkling with surprise, each poem reminds us that our lives are filled with desire and mystery.

 

Read a selection of poems from SLICE OF MOON here.

Kim reads poems from SLICE OF MOON here.


REVIEWS

“Dower (Air Kissing on Mars) returns after a break from publishing with these mostly narrative poems that mine detail with a whimsy bordering on hysteria. In this collection, the speaker manages to squirt too much mustard on her hotdog, have a huge tooth pulled (‘extracting my brain, forcing every thought/ I ever had out of my head’), and buy an iPhone with an app that lets users go back to pioneer life in 1872 (‘my girls tug at my berry-stained apron—mom, let’s bake—in my real world I didn’t bake/ but with this app I can’). She tells us what a boyfriend likes in bed (‘my other girlfriend lets me’) and why a girlfriend prefers sex with skinny guys. But a serious thread runs through these poems: caring for a mother who has dementia. And tucked in also are quiet poems from another place—a short lyric about the Santa Ana wind with a tender ending and a vivid recollection of a now deceased high school boyfriend, a moving blend of sexual experimentation and loss.
-- Library Journal"

The poems are bold and sexy and smart."
-- Stephen Dunn

"Slice of Moon is a dark chocolate fever dream of love, of mothers. Kim Dower dares you into the dark. You may find yourself lurking there."
-- Erica Jong

“Kim Dower’s remarkable first book, Air Kissing on Mars, was on fire. Slice of Moon burns even hotter, its flames rising even higher.”
-- Thomas Lux
 

 

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