By Common Salt.By Common Salt Killarney Clary Killarney Clary was born and raised in Pasadena, California in 1953. She began crafting her unique style of poetry at age 12 and has since been published in numerous publications including: The Boston Review, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review to name a few. Oberlin College Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio; coeducational; opened 1833 as Oberlin Collegiate Institute, became Oberlin College in 1850. It includes a college of arts and sciences and a well-known conservatory of music. Press 50 North Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074-1095 0932440746, $12.95 Killarney Clary is an accomplished poet whose work has been published in such publications as the 'American Poetry Review', 'Colorado Review', Missouri Review', 'Ploughshares', 'Yale Review', and many more. Her work is hallmarked by its spare and lucid prose poems in which she describes and sometimes celebrates aspects of our contemporary landscape, dream fragments, human loss, and the unknowns of our existence in an almost 'stream of consciousness' style of presentation. "By Common Salt" is a highly recommended compendium com·pen·di·um n. pl. com·pen·di·ums or com·pen·di·a 1. A short, complete summary; an abstract. 2. A list or collection of various items. of her work deserving of as wide a readership as possible and is especially recommended to poetry enthusiasts who appreciate how the deft deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. employment of words can evoke lasting and lingering emotions in the mind and emotions of the reader. 'An old woman alone in a white car on Fletcher peers into a pink bakery box as she waits at the signal in twilight. I'm anxious to be home, talking. I'm afraid of the smell of damp metal, a chill that rises into my scalp a thud 1. thud - Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo). It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was "foo", "bar", "thud", "blat". 2. thud - Rare term for the hash character, "#" (ASCII 35). See ASCII for other synonyms. against the wall at three a.m.; the phone keeps ringing. When you only have one thing, you're bound to hate it.' |
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