Kitchen Abrasives - Klinkon, Laura

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Résumé :
Many of my poems reflect the effort to know or to build some structure around things or ideas that I haven't yet figured out. It's like E.M. Forster who said, How do I know what I think until I see what I say? One could also ask, How do I know what I'll say until I think it? or ...How do I know what I'll say until I write it? Er...another place my poems may be coming from: confusion. In general, confusion is a starting point for many poems. Perhaps especially the poems that are humorous or trying to be. After all, confusion is funny. Imagine someone who is wearing a heavy hat in summer. He's dying to take it off, because he's hot. But somehow any place or surface nearby that could accommodate the hat, doesn't seem at all appropriate. Certainly, not on the St. John's Wort bush beside the veranda! You can see him running around brandishing his hat in search of a place to put it, sweating and swearing in his disconcerting conundrum. In the present collection much of the confusion is expressed with regard to things rather than people, sometimes in a weirdly exaggerated way. Perhaps not raucously funny. But...gently abrasive?

Biographie:
she has read her poems in the Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival, and appeared in several anthologies, including Liberty's Vigil and the Just Poets annual Le Mot Juste, as well as consecutively in the monthly online Canto Magazine. She has read in the Genessee Reading Series of Writers & Books and in a Poetry as Philosophy series with poet and phi- losopher David White, at Books, Etc. in Macedon, N.Y. and at the St. John Fisher College Skalny Center sponsored by Rochester Poets. In 2013 she published her full-length book of poems Trying to Find You with Kernel-Image, and in 2017, the chapbooks Kitchen Abrasives and Looking Askance, under the Stesichorus Publications, Rochester, N.Y. imprint....

Sommaire:
Laura Klinkon, ne?e DiLiberto in the Province of Enna, Sicily, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., studied literature and language at the University of Pittsburgh and at American University in Washington, D.C., completing additional coursework at various other universities, including New York University, Middlebury College, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has been employed in teaching, editing, free-lance writing, and translating in various cities including New York, Washington, D.C., and her adopted home town of Rochester, N.Y., where she has also raised two children together with her former husband, Heinrich Klinkon, now deceased. She has been a member of Just Poets and Rochester Poets as well as a member of Writers & Books in Rochester, N.Y....