Stirring the Mirror [Paperback]

Christine Boyka Kluge (Author), Cover Photo: Malgorzata Maj (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2007

Once you begin reading the work of Christine Boyka Kluge you can't help but feel yourself staring out the window of your imagination as you did as a child in grade school except that this time the imagination you are seeing through her language is real. So real, in fact, that you wonder how her ability to shrink herself inside the functions of natural and inanimate things can be consistently possible but it is, over and over again until you realize you've entered not only a universe of rapture and delight but also a darker one whose mystery is a delightful yearning for the unknown.

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About the Author

Christine Boyka Kluge is the author of Teaching Bones to Fly (Bitter Oleander Press, 2003) and Domestic Weather (2004), winner of the 2003 Uccelli Press Chapbook Contest. Her writing is anthologized in No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (Tupelo Press); (Some from) Diagram: a Print Anthology (Del Sol Press); Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction (Mammoth Books); Graphic Poetry (Victionary); PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books); Text: UR The New Book of Masks (Raw Dog Screaming Press); and Online Writing: The First Ten Years (Snowvigate Press, forthcoming). Her writing has appeared widely in print and online journals. Honors include winning the 1999 Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award, the 2006 Hotel Amerika Poetry Contest, and the 2003 Creative NonQuiction Contest, and co-winning The MacGuffin's 1998 Short Short Competition. Her writing has received several Pushcart Prize nominations. Christine has created interactive online collaborations with artist/designer Rick Mullarky and composer Kala Pierson. In 2005, one appeared in Help Wanted: Collaborations in Art, a show by Born Magazine at Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. One of her prose poems was used as text for an experimental opera by Kala Pierson, part of the 2003 Composers and the Voice Series sponsored by American Opera Projects. Several of her poems have been broadcast on "The Naturalist's Datebook," a program on Martha Stewart Living Radio. Also a visual artist, Christine lives with her family in North Salem, NY.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: The Bitter Oleander Press; 1st edition (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978633504
• ISBN-13: 978-0978633509
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,032,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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