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Small Knots
by
Kelli Russell Agodon (Goodreads Author)
Small Knots is a tender and terrifying collection of poems that maps the development of breast cancer, celebrates the family and life's daily small joys, and meditates on what connects us to the world.
Paperback, 88 pages
Published
June 1st 2004
by Wordtech Communications
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Small Knots (Cherry Grove, 2004) is Kelli Russell Agodon’s debut poetry collection. Agodon’s writing is tight throughout, and perfectly reflects the tension between death, fear and an abiding sense of faith. She draws in the reader with a deceptively conversational style, all the while seamlessly knitting metaphors into images conversely terrible and humorous. Every poem is stitched into a magnificent tapestry of the life of one woman, vividly recorded. Its detail and intricacies conjure the spe...more
If I understand correctly, this is Agodon's first full-length book. Although I've given it three starts, there are some poems here that I like very much, particularly in "Stitch," the last of the book's three sections. Will I read more of Agodon? Yes. As I said, this is a first book, and there is enough grounding in ordinary object, enough light shining through them in her lines, to draw me back.
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My 4th collection of poems, HOURGLASS MUSEUM, will be published by White Pine Press in 2014.
I am the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, which won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize judged by Carl Dennis. My other full collection is Small Knots (2004) and my chapbook, Geography, won the Floating Bridge Press Prize in 2003. I also edited the first eBook anthology of contemporary poetry,...more
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I am the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, which won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize judged by Carl Dennis. My other full collection is Small Knots (2004) and my chapbook, Geography, won the Floating Bridge Press Prize in 2003. I also edited the first eBook anthology of contemporary poetry,...more
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