One Good Turn - Poetry by Kirston Koths

<p><u><strong>Winner of the 2016 Blue Light Book Award</strong></u></p><p>“<strong><em>One Good Turn </em></strong>Kirston Koths’ debut collection of poems is a perfect synergy of wisdom beauty angst and the voice of the tribal elder. More than any other poet I know he freeze-frames the magic of his childhood and renders it eternal. Infused with music and alchemical word magic. A joy to read.”</p><p>—<strong>Diane Frank</strong> Author/Editor of <em>River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the Twenty-First Century</em> and Author of <em>Blackberries in the Dream House</em>.</p><p> </p><p>“Each reading of <strong><em>One Good Turn</em></strong> deserves another. Prepare to have your passport stamped as poems transport you to Cuba Mexico and Polynesia as well as the vast landscape of the human heart. Koths artfully captures the wondrous glow of the past examining both its wide-open promise and the social challenges that continue to this day.”</p><p>—<strong>Scott Caputo</strong> Author of <em>The Holy Trinity of Chilies</em>.</p><p> </p><p>“In <strong><em>One Good Turn</em></strong> Kirston Koths shares eloquently the myriad of journeys that define us as human beings. In this collection we travel through poems about childhood Crayola 64 nature the soul of snowflakes friends and lovers. You will also enjoy a delightful comedy section. Each piece holds a unique truth and in these poems we find stories about old cars travels to Brazil and Buenos Aires and a return home to something as simple and as necessary as “A Cricket in the House”. This admirable collection draws the reader into a place where the rest of the world disappears examining the “entropy of loose ends”. As you travel through the pages you will find yourself immersed in “the story within the story” and will take each with you in countless ways.”</p><p>—<strong>Connie Post</strong> Poet Laureate Emerita of Livermore CA 2005 to 2009 Host of the Valona Deli Poetry Series and Author of <em>Floodwater </em>winner of the Lyrebird Award.</p>