Echolocation: Poems

by Kristin Berger

95 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[K.E. Lanning · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book of poetry! Beautiful cadence, brimming with the passion of life and love.

An excerpt from the poem, Shuttle:

You are already gone, a strange peace
rising from the spring dark,
How many ways you have lifted from me, turned
like a stranger in a crowd.

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Berger brings us sensuous-approaching-erotic experiences of the body in the landscapes in which she travels, most often alpine or desert country. Rarely do we find her indoors. She has achieved a remarkable tension between unconstrained passion for life and acceptance of its heart-breaks. In fact, the heart and its desires thread through many of these tightly woven poems that defy excerption.

However, from "Torch-Cactus Bloom, Mid-November":

Like love, it thrives out of season.
This should not be happening, this sullen hope
while the world turns upside down,
fleecing and greed hollowing us out.
How does the earth tilt towards a deaf darkness
while the body, somewhere, arches toward bloom?

[Anatoly Molotkov · Rating 5 out of 5]

"See where the heart strikes/ the scaffolding of ribs, its desire/ as clear as a rubied bell,/ clapper suspended like a thrush, waiting/ for its note to fly back?" A beautiful second collection from Kristin Berger, Echolocation focuses on the joy and the melancholy of nature and of personal attachments. As one love ends, love continues, rooted in our bodies.

[Alissa Hattman · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely book of poetry that blooms and sighs and kneels on ruins. These pieces are startling, beautiful, inventive, intimate, and hopeful. They remind us how un-alone we are in the world.

[BJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some really good poems. Others were too convoluted to know what the author was trying to convey. Also, did not like some of the poem format she used