Polina & the Pomegranate - Paperback

by Kathryn Kimball (Author)

The poems in Polina & the Pomegranate track the arc of life. The first poems catch the flash of youth, the flowering of selfhood, the drum-beat of desire smoking out the body's dark secrets. Following these are poems that explore the heftier spread of middle age, its perplexing ambiguities and uncertainties, like the Quaker sitting unperturbed in meeting, less the runner now and more the seeker. The final poems of the volume ascend, like a visitor at the Uffizi, into the impossible beauty of angels. There at life's ending all experience distils into the primordial white star on black sky, and we begin to "see to the end of this mystery."