Born-Again Anything: Poems

Born-Again Anything: Poems

by Kara Krewer
Born-Again Anything: Poems

Born-Again Anything: Poems

by Kara Krewer

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Overview

In her debut chapbook, Kara Krewer comes of age amidst poverty, family tragedy, and a cast of characters both grotesque and relatable. Born-Again Anything explores what it means to grow up queer in the rural South, to leave, and to return. These poems search for meaning in contradiction: of both loving and struggling against landscapes, people, and upbringing.

Set against a backdrop of big cities and small towns, the Midwest, the Pacific Northwest, as well as the orchards of Krewer’s native rural Georgia, Born-Again Anything is a keen and honest look at the American coming-of-age journey. Krewer’s eye is fresh and her subjects varied: cornfields, supermarkets, collard greens, and animals in silent movies. And always in these poems, Krewer is looking at us, people who wander through our lives carrying unknown stories. These poems give voices to the people we pass every day without much thought. Krewer’s talent lies in her ability to show us who we are, in sympathy, and without judgment.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781680032000
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Publication date: 02/14/2020
Series: The TRP Chapbook Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 52
Sales rank: 1,005,551
File size: 488 KB

About the Author

KARA KREWER was raised on an orchard in rural Georgia. Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2017, West Branch, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Purdue University, where she was editor-in-chief of Sycamore Review and taught creative writing, composition, and film studies. She is a former 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Georgia, where she’s a Presidential Fellow.

Table of Contents

Last Name 1

On Hearing Another Sermon About Lot's Wife 3

Illinois Fanfare 4

Alice 7

Freeway 8

Digression 10

Walking Home on the Hottest Day Ever Recorded 12

Animals in Silent Movies 14

Trash 16

Sleepover 17

A Backdrop of the Countryside 18

Memory, While Driving 19

Aphasia Voluntaria 20

Cornfields 22

A Golden Age of Apples 23

Lobster 25

Away from Wind Street 26

Take This 28

Happy Hollow, Indiana 30

City with Lifted Hands 31

Postdiction 33

Early in Winter 37

Collards 39

Orchard Charm 41

Acknowledgments 43

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