This Close

Karen Klein's This Close is a beautiful read the poems ranging widely in mood and tone. Her partner's painful fatal illness includes a grieving awareness of her own body registering the meaning of old. Parthenon presents an excited First time tourist while Tribal Tongues is playful about Yiddish that enriches ...my tribe/those meshugena enough to make poems. Commitment to Poetry describes her mysterious process of vision: Poetry made a commitment to me...pulled words out of me...scant rain dew on my face...I melt into it an engaging sensitive collection. - Nina Rubinstein Alonso author Riot Wake editor Constellations a Journal of Poetry and Fiction