After the Poison [Paperback]

Collin Kelley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2008

a chapbook of poems.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press; 1ST edition (2008)
• ISBN-10: 159924294X
• ISBN-13: 978-1599242941
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,137,559 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Collin Kelley is the author of the mystery/suspense novels Remain In Light (watch the book trailer on Collin's Author Page) and Conquering Venus, both from Vanilla Heart Publishing. His poetry collections include After the Poison, Slow To Burn and Better To Travel. He the recipient of the 2007 Georgia Author of the Year/Taran Memorial Award and the 1994 Deep South Writers Award from the University of Louisiana. His poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies around the world. He has given readings and guest lectured at San Jose State University, Georgia Tech, Savannah College of Art & Design and Worcester College at Oxford University in the UK. He lives in Atlanta. For more information, visit www.collinkelley.com.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, April 19, 2009

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Priscilla A. Campbell "Published Poet" (Fl United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Poison (Paperback)

After the PoisonEven though I'm a published poet and love poetry, to be honest, seventy percent of poetry books bore me to tears. Not so with Collin Kelley's book. His poems will grab you and hold you from beginning to end. He's gut level honest and an excellent writer. I consider him one of the finest poets writing today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cover Blurbs, September 4, 2008

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Collin Kelley (Atlanta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Poison (Paperback)

In After the Poison, Collin Kelley faces war, genocide, rape, human trafficking, terrorism--every imaginable form of human-caused and human-condoned tragedy that plagues our planet--with an unflinching gaze and asks us to do the same. In today's political climate, where monsters in the White House and out on the campaign trail run rabid, abandoning compassion and understanding for self-righteousness and blind hatred, this slim collection is a must-read. In fact, I dare you to read it. I double dare you.

--Jim Elledge, A History of My Tattoo


After the Poison is CNN on truth serum. Collin Kelley writes the brutal truth, harnessing poetry to reveal us to ourselves.

-Kate Evans, author of Like All We Love and Negotiating the Self


Collin Kelley skewers the contemporary political landscape with unbearably precise and elegant language. Edgy, immediate, and brilliant...this is the kind of poetry that makes you want to run into the streets with a machine gun.

-Jackie Sheeler, The Memory Factory and Off the Cuffs

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5.0 out of 5 stars After the Poison: The American Political Landscape, August 8, 2008

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Justin Evans (West Wendover, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: After the Poison (Paperback)

Collin Kelley has America dead to rights in this collection of politically charged poems. In the aftermath of the Reagan Era, there is no safe place for us to hide because we all have to own up to our share of the blame for the way things have turned out for us.

The poems in After the Poison are wonderfully crafted, sharp, and immense, coming together for one fantastic knockout punch to the soul. Buy this book and read these poems. There is no excuse not to and you will be forever changed by not only what they have to say, but how Kelley has said them.

The finest collection of politically charged poems since Brian Turner's Here, Bullet.