From Booklist
Each poem in Kenvin's first collection seems to be a message from a survivor's heart. In a brief foreword, Carolyn Forche{‚} writes, "These poems are not about abuse . . . [they are instead] a glimpse of the mind at labor in the unknown." Kenvin's subjects range from "The Black Eye," from which she ironically conjures a beautiful image in a tragic scene, to oral sex, which is, in "Let My Mouth Take You," represented as both very erotic and scary. Her most moving poems concern her daughter as they engage the maddening love of a mother for her child, the wrenching pain of seeing that child suffer in an unkind world: in "My Daughter Is Sleeping," Kenvin lovingly, chillingly observes, "Her Body lies in a peel / Of skin. / Her neck is like the stem / Of a chrysanthemum, / Supple, brown, dead." Kenvin is an important new voice. Rau{£}l Nin{¤}o
Review
The Bad Building
The Bad Mother
Beating
The Black Eye
Bruise Theory
Child Supper
The Curse
Demeter
Diner
The Dream Of Something Perfect
Elizabeth Walks In The Air Above Pennsylvania
Evangelical Dark And A Marsh
Expulsion
Farts
For Silvia, My Daughter, Chicago Read Mental Health Center
Heavy Daughter Blues
The Ice King Sleeps With His Bride
Insomnia
Kiwi
Lady Mudflap
Let My Mouth Take You
Love Poem To Steven
Meat And Memory
My Daughter
My Daughter Is Ill In Spring And Summer
My Daughter Is Sleeping
My Daughter's Mattress
Nuptial Substance
The Old Queen Looks At Winter
Paradise Valley, Detroit
Playboy Vice Royals
Playing Pinochle At Lafayette Clinic
Prom Night At Grosse Pointe High And Lafayette Clinic
Seizure Rhapsody
Skin Hunger
Some Of The Things I See For You
Sweetie At Leicester Court
Sweetie Elizabeth House And Her Family Visit Me In Ann Arbor
Tattoos
To A Penis
To Susan Wishcop, An Ojibwa Buried In The Indian Cemetery
Visible Lie
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
The Bad Mother
Beating
The Black Eye
Bruise Theory
Child Supper
The Curse
Demeter
Diner
The Dream Of Something Perfect
Elizabeth Walks In The Air Above Pennsylvania
Evangelical Dark And A Marsh
Expulsion
Farts
For Silvia, My Daughter, Chicago Read Mental Health Center
Heavy Daughter Blues
The Ice King Sleeps With His Bride
Insomnia
Kiwi
Lady Mudflap
Let My Mouth Take You
Love Poem To Steven
Meat And Memory
My Daughter
My Daughter Is Ill In Spring And Summer
My Daughter Is Sleeping
My Daughter's Mattress
Nuptial Substance
The Old Queen Looks At Winter
Paradise Valley, Detroit
Playboy Vice Royals
Playing Pinochle At Lafayette Clinic
Prom Night At Grosse Pointe High And Lafayette Clinic
Seizure Rhapsody
Skin Hunger
Some Of The Things I See For You
Sweetie At Leicester Court
Sweetie Elizabeth House And Her Family Visit Me In Ann Arbor
Tattoos
To A Penis
To Susan Wishcop, An Ojibwa Buried In The Indian Cemetery
Visible Lie
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
