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The lightness of these poems relays the beguiling force that is attention—both stitch and flame, it directs us to the candle in the brain that lights the mind’s ambivalent terrain, the mind a place, or, the mind a camera obscura, the flame a way, the mind a hasp for all that is beyond it—that is to say, nothing. Nothing is beyond it. All things in the lightness of this flame.
–Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne

 

In fascinations, I find myself enthralled by Patrick Kindig’s examination of looking. The eye— the poet’s eye and the evil eye—is its own character in these poems, and as a reader, I feel that I am watching and am being watched. This collection asks: What does it mean to see? What does it feel like to be seen or looked at? How does our seeing participate in the creation of the world? With thrilling formal and imagistic play, each page of this collection crackles with strange and surprising energy that lingers long after you’ve turned the last page.
–Marianne Chan, author of Leaving Biddle City

 

 

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fascinations takes as its theme the relationship between attention and human agency. Weaving together historical accounts of mesmerism and the evil eye, modern retellings of Greek myth and epic (particularly the stories of Medusa, Penelope, and Telemachus), and lyric meditations on the nature of fascination itself, the collection explores those moments in which our attention is
caught and irresistibly held, moments in which we are forced to look and keep looking against our will. Raising compelling questions about the way we maintain (and, more importantly, fail to maintain) bodily and psychic integrity in a world seemingly designed to do away with both, fascinations offers a timely meditation on what it means to master—as well as to abdicate mastery of—an individual self.

Patrick Kindig is the author of the chapbook all the catholic gods (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and the micro-chapbook Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press 2016) as well as the academic monograph Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (Louisiana State University Press 2022). His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, Copper Nickel, and other journals. He currently lives and teaches in rural Texas.

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