Kristen Orser





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Kristen Orser

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Kristen Orser is the author of Winter, Another Wall (blossombones); Folded Into Your Midwestern Thunderstorm (Greying Ghost Press); Wilted Things (Scantily Clad Press); Squint (Dancing Girl Press); and E AT I, illustrated by James Thomas Stevens (Wyrd Tree Press). She is certain about being uncertain and she might forget to return your phone calls.


Dear Wednesday, thank you for arriving and bringing the total joy of a new washer and dryer (three weeks without laundry is like being in college again) and the promise of more sun-sitting-weekends.


But the best part about midweek is homemade yogurt for breakfasts–making the week feel a little more “fancy.”



AfterBenoît de Korsakshared a gift of his yogurt with us at Cooking for Solutions, Jesse...

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Published on May 30, 2012 08:29
Average rating: 4.44 · 41 ratings · 5 reviews · 5 distinct works
Winter, Another Wall
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Wilted Things
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Folded Into Your Midwestern...
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010
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Squint
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009
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Surprising and, at times, moving. The dependency on plot is almost totally tossed in favor of creating a full, complicated, and genuine character who is honestly recounting his life and experiencing the difficulty of looking back.
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sure, we sit around and think about what "americana" means, but longhorn goes out and puts it in our faces. this is lyrical work and there's a real sense of work--labor--pursuit. making a landscape isn't easy and avoiding homage or pastoral fantasy i...more
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i told a friend about this book and said, "it's like the ear wrapped around the experience of being a woman and found out that it's a very human condition." i said it and got embarrassed. now i've typed it and i'm embarrassed, but the writing feels v...more
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Oh yes, this was perfect. Nice play without relying on "play" as the movement. Something parlor-ish. Something I'll read again to think more about.
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it...more
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The Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (CCAF4) happened on October 1-11, 2009, featuring Chicago-based artists collaborating in performances...more
9578 Dusie Press Books — 205 members — last activity Jul 13, 2009 07:17am
*poetry poetry poetry* bookbooks, chaps, e-chaps by Dusie Press authors... All Books listed here are by poets published by Dusie Press, via the chap pro...more
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SCP is an e-chap series edited by Andrew Lundwall. . .



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Daniel
Why outdated science books, Kristen?




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