The Fever Almanac
by Kristy Bowen
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I’ve wanted to read this book ever since I came into contact with Bowen’s blog and discovered how very crazy she is. By that I mean genius. As well as being author of a few books, Kristy Bowen is also editor of the webzine Wicked Alice, and runs Dancing Girl Press, which was recently featured in Poets & Writers in an article on Independent Presses. She is now starting a new project; something to do with having “a room of one’s own” for women and their poetry in her home city of ...more
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In Bowen’s work, there is hazard to the homestead. Her poems reel you in with a southerner’s hospitality, but as soon as you feel safe, the floorboards start caving in. This is poetry that is both devotional and dangerous, and “prone to strange weather.” In these poems, occupied by “sadness and jazz in red dresses,” an exacerbated beauty resides that is mesmerizing and revelatory. She lays claim to ambivalence and ambiguity, to that hesitation space situated between the marvelous a...more
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Read in August, 2008
It is possible for words to break your heart. These poems did their work and then stuck in the cracks, haunting in the middle of the night until I woke up and read more, now, again.
I picked up The Fever Almanac several months ago, with an armful of other poetry. Somehow I let it languish on a shelf for too long, and only recently re-discovered it and realized I hadn't yet read it.
I knew nothing about Kristy Bowen when I opened to the first poem, but I was entranced before I was e...more
I picked up The Fever Almanac several months ago, with an armful of other poetry. Somehow I let it languish on a shelf for too long, and only recently re-discovered it and realized I hadn't yet read it.
I knew nothing about Kristy Bowen when I opened to the first poem, but I was entranced before I was e...more
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Little too sentimental/girly for my tastes. But I loved the line: "Even now, a grandmother / summers in my sternum, while another swims / the blood stream, the heart's gates and locks."
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