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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
When I Think on Your Lives

When I Think on Your Lives

Kainer, Tara

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1897475683
ISBN13: 9781897475683
Publisher: Hidden Brook Press
Published: Apr 1 2011
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Tara Kainer is a writer who pulls no punches - deeply self-examining, she takes on the natural world, love, war, and poverty, and insists on a human response, a recognition of meaning. From the beauty of the spun-butter moon to the rages of the welfare office, from the wide prairie landscape to the many storms of mind and heart, these poems ask essential questions of identity, judgement, and the weight of past experience - all those versions/of yourself imposed on you by others. Interpreting crows' caws or the cacophony of war coverage, her attempts to know what things are are bracing and beautiful. She invokes David Suzuki, Ezra Pound, and the poets/whose truth seeps through/the cage of the printed word. Kainer's poems articulate a singular, uncompromising voice measuring the light of my mind/by the light of those stars, a reminder of human decency and the importance of the place of the poet: both to get at the truth, if it's possible and to be such a fool/for beauty.

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