HOW SIMULTANEOUS WE ARE

An appreciation of Kimberly Grey

SPENCER REECE

Books Systems for the Future of Feeling by Kimberly Grey Persea Books, Fall 2020 79 pages, $15.95 Nu sculon herigean. —Caedmon When Kimberly Grey stepped onto the stage of poetry, she didn’t sound like anybody else. When I mentioned this to her, she said: “I just want to write good work that is compelling and different. I don’t want to write like anybody else. I always said to myself, it isn’t worth writing something if someone else has already written it.” When I mentioned this to Gabriel Fried, her editor at Persea, he said: “Form and subject matter in Grey’s poems are melded. Nothing is ornamental or incidental in her work, no small part, which you can make do without, is left over at the end. Her books form a gorgeous apparatus: you can see how…

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