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Mixed Plate
New and Selected Poems
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
Sales Date: 2003-12-01
216 Pages, 5.50 x 8.50 in
Irreverent and edgy renderings of the American scene.
Poet and visual artist Faye Kicknosway presents both new works and twenty-five years of celebrated verse and illustration in her latest volume, Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems. The poems mine common speech, folklore, film, the grotesque and the ordinary with unapologetic candor and ferocious intimacy. They are a testament to the power of contemporary monologue, filled with surprising inversions and unique takes on the risk of opening the front door. Cutting musically to the quick of a situation, each is filled with surprise, horror and, as they add up, moral consequence.
Hat Trick
I Don't Know Her
The Horse
Kitchen
Who Is She?
The River
River Hill Cafe
Billboards and Frame Houses The Crossroads
Look at Her:
I Was Dragged Down
The Violence of Potatoes
Like Stuttering
Couple
The Day's Extortion
Under the Bread Fruit Tree, the Steamy Head
Neighbor
License
Cowboy
Justin's Cat
Verdant
Genesis
Geography
Figure I
Short Take I
Short Take 2
Short Take 3
Short Take 4
Short Take 5
Short Take 6
Short Take 7
Short Take 8
Short Take 9
Short Take 10
Short Take 11
Short Take 12
Short Take 13
Short Take 14
Short Take 14
Short Take 15
Short Take 16
Short Take 17
Short Take 18
Short Take 19
Short Take 20
Short Take 21
When Speech Comes
A Tale of Dolors
Still Life
Breath
Wife
Woman
The Clothesline
What He Wanted
Do You Know What They Did to Grandpa ?
The Bed He Dreamed Himself Into
Inheritance
November
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Acknowledgments
FAYE KICKNOSWAY, Morgan Blair to her students at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, has authored eleven books of poetry. One of them, Who Shall Know Them?, inspired by Walker Evans's photographs, was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. Faye Kicknosway was also a contributor to the ground-breaking feminist anthology No More Masks! (1973).
"Turning the body inside out with both mental and physical discourse/intercourse, Faye Kicknosway's poems lead us first through desire and titillation then straight into despair before the reader finds any salvation. The journey will ravish you."
~William L. Fox, author of Reading Sand
"Faye Kicknosway's materials arrive into her world rough and charged with real and potential powers I have been reading her work for a long time and I'm greedily gluttonishly elated by the pleasure of having it all in a big book."
~Andrei Codrescu, author of It was Today
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