Nancy Kuhl :: Poetry

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,
1962.

—— I N THE A RBOR ——

Kuhl’s chapbook, 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