This Temple by K. Nicole Wilson

$14.99

 

The temple of the title houses both the battered body and the battered spirit as the poet, at “low tide,” recovers from failing health and a failed relationship. These poems-forthright, tensile, unvarnished-explore complexities of feeling and successfully navigate “the blue tributaries of heart.” They risk, “licking chocolate off the edges of a serrated knife”- Sylvia Plath surviving herself.
–Richard Taylor

 

In This Temple K Nicole Wilson masterfully marries the rhythm and music of language with the memorable images of pain. These kinetic poems are alive with truth and emotion. The readers feel the energy of each knot in both flesh and psyche, the buildup of tension between fear of death and the welcoming of death’s seeming relief. Relationships and expectations are explored and broken open to heal in the air of the words. The collection begins and ends with the heart-a place where beginnings and endings live together in beauty and poetry. Congratulations to K Nicole for a wonderful debut collection!
–Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

 

These poems sing with joy and sorrow and everything in between. This Temple is a deeply emotional reading experience from a poet at the top of her game.
–Silas House

 

 

 

 

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This Temple

by K. Nicole Wilson

$14.99, paper

K. Nicole Wilson grew up on the baseball fields and basketball courts of Maysville, KY, and reading year-round in its public and school libraries. While attending the University of Kentucky, the right brain won and the poet emerged from the shell of mathematics major. Nurtured under the kind and discerning eyes of Leatha Kendrick, James Baker Hall, and Nikky Finney, it became clear there was no other choice. K. Nicole earned her MFA in poetry at Spalding University’s brief residency program, studying and blossoming beneath the brilliant Greg Pape, Richard Cecil, Molly Peacock, Barbara Hamby, and Rane Arroyo. It was Rane who told her not to be afraid to be tender; these are some of those poems. During graduate school she lived in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, reading Stephen King, and shouting poetry from snow-capped peaks. The distance from her Kentucky home gave new insight to K. Nicole’s writing, creating a pining. A move to shrouded Seattle confirmed the need to go back to the Bluegrass, back to a city where it actually rains more: Lexington, the state’s beating blue heart. She hibernates in a little harbour with Oy, her beautiful billy-bumbler/cow dog where they root for Wildcats and waggle as much as possible.

 

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