Air Kissing on Mars (Red Hen Press)

Local poet Kim Dower will read and sign her new collection, Air Kissing on Mars.

"Kim Dower writes jazzy, sassy, sexy poems that move fast, are full of surprise and tweak the heartstrings like Arkhipovsky tweaks the balalaika.: --Stephen Dobyns

"Kim Dower's poetry is absolutely charming and compelling. She combines humor and heartbreak, while exploring the personal and universal. Her poems are both accessible and profound. What I love most is that the poet herself is so present in her images and emotions. What a big, beautiful, generous, and funny heart she has!" --Lisa See

Kim Dower grew up in New York on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and received a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston. Upon graduating, Kim stayed at Emerson where she taught Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry for two years before moving to Los Angeles where she pursued other writing projects and began her own literary publicity company called Kim-from-L.A., the name for which she has become famous in the world of book publishing. Kim’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, The Seneca Review, and in the on-line video magazine, Guerilla Reads. She lives with her family in West Hollywood, California.

Air Kissing on Mars (Paperback)

By Kim Dower

$18.95

ISBN-13: 9781597091664
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Red Hen Press, 10/2010

A Kim Dower poem is a portal to a haunting universe of everyday life wrapped into poetic reverie. Lost languages, locomotives pummeling through dreams, taxi drivers thrown by the earth's rotation, shadows in closets, vanishing carrots, men who exfoliate --all come together in this opus of shining and startling wisdom. At once rhapsodic, edgy and sensual.

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