Paradoxx
Kate Colby
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“What’s changed more since I was born, the world or my perception of it?” In Paradoxx, Kate Colby applies her humor and exacting intelligence to teasing out tangles in relationships between memory, signification, and human perception. A one-hundred-day chronicle of a dark period in the author’s life, this tightly-wound lyric essay is also a memoir of growing up in the late 20th century and stumbling into the 21st. Full of startling insight and observational detail, Colby’s tenth book shows a poet’s mind at work deep in the trenches of thought and language.
“Kate Colby’s crystalline prose, with its utmost clarity, is what binds together Paradoxx as a whole. Fragmentation is the way, of course, the most contemporary. I say ‘presence’ is the
thing for the reader here. Or maybe ‘presents.’”
— Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm and Hotels of America
“The best falls from Eden tumble with a desperate love for the beast within. If the story we write on this path is funny, is wounded, is giving, is sensuous, is confused, is telling—as Kate Colby’s is here—then we survive that fall with flying colors.”
— Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses singer and songwriter, author of Rat Girl
KATE COLBY’S books of poetry and prose include I Mean, Reverse Engineer and Dream of the Trenches. She has received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut, and the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University. Her poems and essays have recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Harper’s, Lana Turner, LitHub and The Nation. She grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she teaches at Brown and UPenn, and performs with the ad hoc poets’ theater group, Spatulate Church Emergency Shift. Her website is www.katecolby.com.