In this debut poetry collection, Kimberly Groninga offers precise and insightful poems that examine aspects of daily life that are easy to miss, the unfamiliar and the illogical in the everyday. As Groninga says of her work: I like to think of it as finding artifacts and planting clues, preserving perspective for future readers.
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Kimberly Groninga makes a splendid debut in her new chapbook of poetry Other Things that Grow. In this work, we learn to perceive the world with a more care and with a more precise lens. Groninga views common objects--the barrel of a flute--common experiences--falling asleep--and common places--a tree in her backyard--with unusual detail and insight. Groninga approaches her world from the angle of a fine sculptor to reveal the true essence of what we take for granted in the environment around us. --Mary Swander, Poet Laureate of Iowa and author of The Girls on the Roof
Kimberly Groninga's debut collection, Other Things that Grow, is like a constellation of stars, winking bright and hard in a winter sky. Her scintillating poems often orbit around the organic, the natural and quick: aphids riding tiny helicopters from a cottonwood tree, a lover like a beetle grasping you with appendages, a whodunit ladybug red / like zooming copper, a child who waves like a pennant, ripples and snaps / like a flag. Groninga looks our bright and hard lives dead in the eye and comes away with sharply observed truths to help us all understand deeply our own worlds. Brava, Kim. --Vince Gotera, author of Fighting Kite and Ghost Wars
Kimberly Groninga's debut collection, Other Things that Grow, is like a constellation of stars, winking bright and hard in a winter sky. Her scintillating poems often orbit around the organic, the natural and quick: aphids riding tiny helicopters from a cottonwood tree, a lover like a beetle grasping you with appendages, a whodunit ladybug red / like zooming copper, a child who waves like a pennant, ripples and snaps / like a flag. Groninga looks our bright and hard lives dead in the eye and comes away with sharply observed truths to help us all understand deeply our own worlds. Brava, Kim. --Vince Gotera, author of Fighting Kite and Ghost Wars
About the Author
Kimberly Groninga splits her work life between her positions as nonfiction editor of North American Review and adjunct faculty in English at the University of Northern Iowa. Her collection of prayers, On Our Knees, was published by Tally-Ho! Press in 2009.
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