| Kevin Craft's poetry
has appeared in many journals and reviews, including Poetry, Verse,
9th Letter, AGNI and Poetry Daily. He holds
B.A.s in English and in French from the University of Maryland, and an M.F.A.
in English from the University of Washington. A recipient of fellowships
from the MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Camargo Foundation,
and the Artist Trust of Washington State, he currently resides in Seattle
where he teaches English and writing at Everett Community College and for
the University of Washington's Summer in Rome Seminar. |
“The layering of detail, the building and unbuilding of the arguments of narrative, the commissions and omissions of the poet's autobiography form designs as well as designations, symbols as well as signatures. There is a wealth of information here, but changed, at every turn, into different riches.”
—Stanley Plumly
“The poems of Kevin Craft reveal exuberant invention, an originally angled imagination, and a verbal alertness which animates with seemingly casual authority his landscape of vivid images, making each poem a little depth charge of linguistic excitation. The work in this buoyant first collection revels in all sorts of worldly and wordly delights, moving in a fizz of high spirits from allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible to a table for two at Ii Forno di Luigi, ‘whose gnocchi/ is out of this world.’ Caught in a friendly blizzard of nouns and adjectives and verbs, we look again at ordinary phenomena, grow ‘intimate with estrangement,’ and are delighted to find that even mollusks can make their own ‘disheveled music.’”
—Eamon Grennan
