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AIR KISSING ON MARS
Kim Dower's collection of
71 poems is a sensual and rhapsodic journey through
emotional landscapes sweeping everyday life. Playful,
intelligent, funny, edgy, engaging—sometimes biting,
ironic and dark, sometimes dreamy and surreal, full of
poignancy and arresting metaphors, the daily, simple
occurrences in Air Kissing On Mars startle and provoke,
while stirring up the fairy dust and turbulent weight of
memory; evoking the possibilities and gorgeous chaos of
life. Open and inviting, these poems draw the reader
into a world seen upside down, inside out, a sideways
bird reporting on a universe filled with mystery and
passion. Joan Didion meets Tinkerbell, Kim Dower’s poems
are as whimsical and light as they are rich and intense.
Simultaneously humorous and profound these passionate
and personal poems, relatable to all, are drenched with
vivid imagery, and sparkle with surprise.
Lost languages, disappearing mailboxes, locomotives
pummeling through dreams, taxi drivers thrown by the
earth’s rotation, shadows in closets, vanishing carrots,
men who exfoliate—all manner of haunting evocations come
together in this opus of shining and startling wisdom
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