I enjoyed reading Flu Season: Poems by Katie Kalisz, so much so that I looked at her first poetry collection, Quiet Woman. I found the same keen eye upon family and relationships that I found in her later collection.
At the same time, her view is wider, including friends and relatives. The collection opens with the pregnant poet attending a funeral. A child, age unspecified, is in the casket, but a child who died before its mother. And she tries to imagine “the nearly grown child inside of me / dying before I did,” including the possible names of the child engraved on a gray gravestone and a memorial folder providing directions to the funeral luncheon. A later poem describes a wake for a 14-year-old girl, perhaps serving as the amplification of the funeral.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Thursday Readings
“Pomona,” poem by William Morris – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Face in the Stone – poem by David Whyte.
Reading Goodnight Moon – poem by Maureen Doallas.
The poem within the poem – Henry Oliver at The Common Reader.
Poet Laura: Trees, the Sea, Birds, Flowers, Poems – Donna Hilbert at Tweetspeak Poetry.
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