Curve of Things

Kathy Kremins is a retired New Jersey public school teacher and the author of two chapbooks of poems, Seamus & His Smalls and Undressing the World. She is also the author of An Ethics of Reading: The Broken Beauties of Toni Morrison, Nawal el Sadaawi, and Arundhati Roy. She is an editor for NJ Audubon Magazine and a member of the feminist poetry collective Write On! Poetry Babes.

• Diversity of Matter1: angles of discoveryThe Curve of ThingsChocolateComing Out in Dublin, 1980The FallBlowing KissesWild WestAbout the SadnessA Vesper of SortsTo Taste2: what I didn’t know beforeTracingsLast Long LooksNight PoolsNot a Flashy ThingAcushla“Red Leaves”Ask AgainLate at NightMappinghow can I say that things are pictures3: geographies of livesThis Place I LoveOn Her Fourth BirthdayShedd Aquarium, Chicago, 2003That’s AllWhat I Will Leave YouStolen PoemAmor MundiMourning FlowersMemory ChainA Controlled Burn4: recipe for daydreamsTorch SongBurntDeep GroovesBlue MorningIterationsA Canyon in My ThroatFor SweetnessBlowing GlassBlue FieldsAcknowledgmentsGratitudes

"The poems in Kremins's debut volume (after two chapbooks) reflect tenderly on grief and desire, and offer a refreshing embrace of chaos."