The Nine Senses

The prize-winning author of Thistle shares “a quietly magnificent collection of prose poems” that explore how we connect to the world around us ( Orion ). Drawing inspiration from the work of Rene Char, Melissa Kwasny presents a new kind of prose poem in The Nine Senses . These experiments challenge the way we read sequentially, making each line equal to the next as disparate figures and topics appear side by side: Dylan Thomas, Roman water lines, Paul Celan, Shirin Neshat, anti-depressants, Bud