Hush Sessions

by Kristi Maxwell

The notion of exchange circulates throughout Kristi Maxwell's superlative second collection of poetry, Hush Sessions. In a series of utterly unique poetic experiences, things transform or transfer: superstition becomes science, and bodies become texts to read. In addition, family mythologies become sites of substitution and a borderland where irrationality and rationalization touch. Kristi Maxwell's poetry reminds us that words, like objects, do not exist in a singular state, and their multiplicity is activated through perception: "a veil during/ the trying on rather than the pride of/ the dress." As Fanny Howe says, Maxwell's poems "have pure, ephemeral lines that suggest much thought about time and utterance, yet they float free without any need for explanation."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981859135
• ISBN13: 9780981859132
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Saturnalia Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 7.3"