 Folding A River
(Marick Press, 2007)
by Kawita Kandpal
51 pages/$14.95
In her debut collection, Folding a River, Kawita Kandpal traces the shoreline of memory. Birds lift in and from these poems as all our margins of error are measured and re-measured. I praise what endures, one poem tells us, and here eden is remembered and re-imagined in all its bittersweetness. Haunted by other landscapes and other languages, Kandpal has written a new narrative of exile, a wish made from the sound of willows and the sound of hooves, a hum of longing, the song the bones sing: tra la la to the flesh, tra la la... --Mary Ann Samyn, author of Purr
The elegantly muscular poems in Kawita Kandpal s Folding a River are aware of themselves as artifacts with an aesthetic but are also, always, aware, intensely, of this world. These are poems that can rearrange constellations, spelling daughter in an evening sky, and delve deeply enough to find the continents submerged in centuries of desire. Folding a River illuminates the fact that grace is not the absence of longing but the form of longing that s never absent. In Kawita Kandpal s poems, that longing illuminates a sensual and sensuous world. --George Looney, author of The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels
This is a volume of memory and desire, landscape and water, and again water. Loss is redeemed by the sensuous beauty of Kandpal's language, and the precision of her insights into the darker currents. You will believe her when she names them holy. --AliciaOstriker, author of No Heaven
About the Author
Kawita Kandpal's poems have appeared in such journals as TriQuarterly and Puerto del Sol. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Bowling Green State University and lives presently in Detroit. For more info, go to www.kawitakandpal.com/
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