Nostalgia for the Criminal Past
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Poems
"Nostalgia for the Criminal Past" by Kathleen Winter is the winner of the 2011 Antivenom Poetry Award published by Elixir Press. Contest judge Deborah Bogen had this to say about it: "'Nostalgia for the Criminal Past' is Kathleen Winter's complicated, insightful, intriguing, sometimes sad and always artful song."
Bio
Kathleen Winter earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Arizona State University in 2011.
Praise for this book
By turns witty, gutsy, and passionate, Kathleen Winter's 'Nostalgia for the Criminal Past' pulls the reader into a capacious verbal terrain. There is in these poems a subtle, delicate narrative of loss, grief, and survival, but as a poet trained in the law, Winter knows that any truth, like joy, is rare and precious. 'Joy is brief. / It turns away, extends its limbs, / feathered, reptilian,' one speaker opines. These poems are the nimble, profound products of experience alchemized into wisdom. A dazzling debut.
Cynthia Hogue
