Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems

by Kim Addonizio

Overview

America’s Kim Addonizio has been called ‘one of the nation’s most provocative and edgy poets’. Her poetry is renowned both for its gritty, street-wise narrators and for a wicked sense of wit. With passion, precision and irreverent honesty, her poems explore life’s dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, joy and suffering, exposing raw emotions often only visible when truly confronting ourselves - jealousy, self-pity, fear, lust. ‘Like any good nighthawk, Addonizio finds Eros and loss inseparable, where they lurk in lovers’ exchanges and at the bottom of empty gin bottles. But these poems serve as affirmations too, in long lyrical questions-and-answers that push on into the early morning, braving last call.’ - The New Yorker

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780372716
Publisher:	Bloodaxe Books
Publication date:	10/22/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	391 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kim Addonizio was born in 1954. After living for most of her adult life in California, she is currently based in New York City. Her poetry books include The Philosopher’s Club (1994), Jimmy & Rita (1997), Tell Me (2000), What Is This Thing Called Love (2004), Lucifer at the Starlite (2009), My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits (2014), and now her first UK publication, Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems (2015) from Bloodaxe. She has also published fiction, notably the novels Little Beauties (2005) and My Dreams Out in the Street (2007), and the short story collection The Palace of Illusions (2014). She collaborated with Dorianne Laux on The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (1997), and published another poetry guide called Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (2009). She often incorporates her love of blues harmonica into her readings. Her Wild Nights will be launched with readings in Britain in early November 2015.

Editorial Reviews

‘I fell in love with her work. Her Bloodaxe selected and new poems Wild Nights was a collection which absolutely shaped me.’ – Rachel Long, speaking about Kim Addonizio on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please

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