Kristen Lang—poetry, 'SkinNotes'

LANG, Kristen—poetry, ‘SkinNotes’

Kristen Lang—poetry, 'SkinNotes'
Kristen Lang—poetry, 'SkinNotes'

LANG, Kristen—poetry, ‘SkinNotes’

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Kristen Lang’s deftly-crafted poetry collection, SkinNotes, scrawls its emotive verse across the skin of the self. It is not indelible ink and it would not matter if it were, as the body is transient just as the words we wield, weave, and write exist only for a brief time.

 


Lang’s work is concerned with the beauty and richness of the accumulation of the transient words we utter, or leave unuttered, in our daily lives. This is a poetry of the here and now, present in soul or spirit, and encased in the warm contours of a breathing body. In Hebrew, “breath” and “spirit” are the same word and, for Lang, the words we exhale and the love we inhale form the essence of our souls.

 

Read more of Alison Clifton’s review of SkinNotes at StylusLit

 
 

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Kristen Lang: ‘SkinNotes’ (2017)

 


‘Lyric poetry is the lightly orchestrated voice of true feeling. Its shape and its language persuade us, as readers, that soul or spirit has become fully incorporate. In Kristen Lang’s own words, again and again “we are all / this embrace”: all in her gathered moment of love or of loss. She has written of our inevitable transience, “the angels are not ourselves”, but these sure-footed poems locate personal apprehension in a physically delicate, common world. Readers will surely delight in the subtle, varied command of SkinNotes.’

 


— Chris Wallace-Crabbe

 
 
 


‘Hearing these poems sing off the page is like listening to Pablo Casals play cello. Their music goes deep: resonating chest, bone, heart, nerve and brain. Afterwards you feel as if you’ve been tenderly bathed. Renewed, soothed, enlivened – freshly alert to the tender nuance and beauty of the world.’

 


— Gina Mercer

 
 
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