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"With the perfect blend of grit, lyricism, and irony, Vanessa Vrtiak's poems confront, bless, and engage us with the hard and beautiful truths of contemporary experience. Kissing Lightning is charged with the beauty of love and desire while not shying away from the damage of sexual abuse, incarceration, loss, and disappointment. Vrtiak starts with laying out “Universal Truths” and then asks readers to test those truths against a vivid landscape in which fear and hope battle with one another—only the conflict here is illuminated rather than resolved. Here lie poems that investigate the difficult encounters with body image, disaster preparedness, addiction, homelessness, mass shootings, hatred, and hopelessness—and yet the poet still will not give in to despair. Vrtiak takes us to such heart-rending moments as the parents of the victims of Pulse Nightclub shooting who find “the courage to kiss in front of a room full of familiar faces/ looking for the same truth, willing to go/deep into the dark night club to find it.” Vrtiak’s eye and ear for this manner of the difficult and the beautiful is exceptional—and this collection does exactly what it sets out to do—kisses lightning full on and reveals that power moving through and beyond us." --David Holper, Eureka Poet Laureate |
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The Compass in Her Bloodby Vanessa Vrtiak
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