Nancy Kuhl :: Poetry

Cover design
by Megan Mangum,
Words That Work

—— S USPEND ——

Nancy Kuhl's second full-length collection of poetry, Suspend, was published in spring 2010 by Shearsman Books.

“This moment of historical exigency requires the invention of new forms; Kuhl’s response is without irony and full of consequence. She marries the emotional depths of ‘confessional’ poetry with avant-garde techniques and a philosophical and syntactical insistence that the self is definitively relational. Suspend is unusually important and I think it will have an immediate and widespread impact.”

——Forrest Gander

Visit the Shearsman Books website for details and ordering information or order directly from Amazon.com.

—— T HE W IFE OF THE L EFT H AND ——

Nancy Kuhl’s first full-length collection of poetry, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published by Shearsman Books in 2007.

“Provocative, haunting, this is a book that looks ‘from behind the eyelid’s / veil’ slantingly and penetratingly at the world’s unravelings—and makes elegant art out of the raw materials of chaos and deception.”

—— Alicia Ostriker

Visit the Shearsman Books website for details and ordering information or order directly from Amazon.com.

Reviews of The Wife of the Left Hand can be found in Verse, Stride Magazine, and rhubarb is susan.

Cover art
by Joe Brainard,
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—— THE NOCTURNAL FACTORY ——

Kuhl’s chapbook The Nocturnal Factory was published in August 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse.

“Pry into the dream's body; lift its dense hot organs one by one and place them on the table. Slice each open in blue light broken and broken by the room's chill and shiver, the hanging lamp's unavoidable sway. Record what you find there.”

—— From "The Nocturnal Factory"

—— I N THE A RBOR ——

In the Arbor was winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press.

“The sources of these poems are sometimes harrowing, sometimes serene; in every case Nancy Kuhl alchemizes them into distilled energy. . . . This is the first collection of a poet to watch in the future, yes, but also to read right now.”

—— Tom Andrews

—— S ELECTED P OEMS (O NLINE ) ——

“Affair of the Fire Eaters”
in Jacket

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“December 1”
in Drunken Boat

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“Rosary”
in Drunken Boat

“Off at the Hinges”
in Free Verse

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“Pyramid”
in Agni

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“Wedding Party”
in Free Verse