Kralowec, Kimberly: The Saplings Think of Us As Young

Kelson Books, paperback Publication Date: May 26, 2023 Publisher Marketing: The poems in Kimberly Kralowec's gorgeous, heart-opening collection are rife with haunting and lyrical lines that illuminate the crisis of climate change. In her visionary debut collection, The Saplings Think of Us as Young, California native Kimberly Kralowec explores the intimacy of living in close relationship with extremes of beauty and distress - in both the human and non-human creatures around us. "Kimberly Kralowec's poems haunt in the best of ways, moving through the loved and marked spaces of our lives. The voice is rhapsodic, songlike, but never lulling: at any moment, the torsions of her syntax may pull you into their undertow. Listening to someone who can 'understand the bleached / language of thirst, ' we are witness to a distinct, oracular vision. Kralowec sees through the mysteries of the everyday into a transcendent world of strangeness: 'I feel again what several people told me did not exist.'